Credit, Currency, and Capital
the scottish financial revolution, 1690-1727
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- Paperback
162 pages
- Release Date
30 January 2025
Summary
The Scottish Financial Revolution: Credit, Currency, and Capital (1690-1727)
The years 1690–1727 marked a period of profound transformation for Scotland, a time of ambitious colonial ventures and groundbreaking financial innovations, interwoven with economic instability and political upheaval. The ill-fated Darien Scheme, the founding of the Bank of Scotland and the Royal Bank of Scotland, the Anglo-Scots Union, the Hanoverian Succession, and the Jacobite rising of 1715, all transpi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781032257471 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1032257474 |
| Series: | Political Economies of Capitalism, 1600-1850 |
| Author: | Andrew McDiarmid |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 162 |
| Release Date: | 30 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 326g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Andrew McDiarmid
Andrew McDiarmid earned his PhD at the University of Dundee and has attended the Graduate School at Yale University. He has been an adjunct professor at University College Dublin and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Edinburgh. His work focuses on Early Modern Scotland, Britain, Ireland, and the colonies, with an interest in the history of money and the development of financial institutions. The author’s previous publications include: ‘The Equivalent Societies of Edinburgh and London, the Formation of the Royal Bank of Scotland, and the Nature of the Scottish Financial Revolution’, Journal of British Studies (2021); and ‘“Bring us wealth, or keep it among us”: The financial literature of the Edinburgh pamphlet war of 1705, and the capitalisation of the Scottish economy’, Scottish Historical Review (2022).
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