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Montana's New Day (Hardcover)
Pamela Nightingale; Illustrated by Christa Clopton
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This book charts the contributions made to the development of the
late medieval English economy by enterprise, money, and credit in a
period which saw its major export trade in wool, which earned most
of its money-supply, suffer from prolonged periods of warfare, high
taxation, adverse weather, and mortality of sheep. Consequently,
the economy suffered from severe shortages of coin, as well as from
internal political conflicts, before the plague of 1348-9 halved
the population. The book examines from the Statute Merchant
certificates of debt, the extent to which credit, which normally
reflects economic activity, was affected by these events, and the
extent to which London, and the leading counties were affected
differently by them. The analysis covers the entire kingdom, decade
by decade, and thereby contributes to the controversy whether
over-population or shortage of coin most inhibited its development.
First published in 1973. This book describes the career of Sir
George Macartney, who spent twenty-eight years at the turn of the
nineteenth century as British representative in Sinkiang, China's
most westerly province. Macartney was in a unique position to
observe political and diplomatic manoeuvres by the key players
trying to establish a sphere of influence in China's strategically
vital hinterland before and during the Chinese revolution.
The eleven articles in this volume examine controversial subjects
of central importance to medieval economic historians. Topics
include the relative roles played by money and credit in financing
the economy, whether credit could compensate for shortages of coin,
and whether it could counteract the devastating mortality of the
Black Death. Drawing on a detailed analysis of the Statute Merchant
and Staple records, the articles chart the chronological and
geographical changes in the economy from the late-thirteenth to the
early-sixteenth centuries. This period started with the triumph of
English merchants over alien exporters in the early 1300s, and
concluded in the early 1500s with cloth exports overtaking wool in
value. The articles assess how these changes came about, as well as
the degree to which both political and economic forces altered the
pattern of regional wealth and enterprise in ways which saw the
northern towns decline, and London rise to be the undisputed
financial as well as the political capital of England.
The eleven articles in this volume examine controversial subjects
of central importance to medieval economic historians. Topics
include the relative roles played by money and credit in financing
the economy, whether credit could compensate for shortages of coin,
and whether it could counteract the devastating mortality of the
Black Death. Drawing on a detailed analysis of the Statute Merchant
and Staple records, the articles chart the chronological and
geographical changes in the economy from the late-thirteenth to the
early-sixteenth centuries. This period started with the triumph of
English merchants over alien exporters in the early 1300s, and
concluded in the early 1500s with cloth exports overtaking wool in
value. The articles assess how these changes came about, as well as
the degree to which both political and economic forces altered the
pattern of regional wealth and enterprise in ways which saw the
northern towns decline, and London rise to be the undisputed
financial as well as the political capital of England.
The sixteen articles in this collection analyse the contribution
made by overseas trade, and the wealth in coin which it created, to
the development of the English economy and locate this in an
European-wide setting. In time, they range from the late
Anglo-Saxon period up to the advent of the Tudors. The papers
include general surveys of the importance of coinage and credit in
the rise and decline of a market economy, and of the way that
credit functioned in a society that lacked reliable supplies of
bullion and which was also subject to the scourges of warfare and
devastating disease. They illustrate, too, how from the tenth
century the English crown used its control and exploitation of the
coinage as part of a sophisticated fiscal system which helped
create the precocious power of the English state. The author
further shows how the wool trade altered the geographical pattern
of wealth and enriched peasants, landowners and merchants, while
the competing interests involved in the trade also cause political
conflicts in Parliament and in the government of London during the
period when London was establishing itself as the political capital
and the financial centre of the kingdom.
First published in 1973. This book describes the career of Sir
George Macartney, who spent twenty-eight years at the turn of the
nineteenth century as British representative in Sinkiang, China's
most westerly province. Macartney was in a unique position to
observe political and diplomatic manoeuvres by the key players
trying to establish a sphere of influence in China's strategically
vital hinterland before and during the Chinese revolution.
This book charts the contributions made to the development of the
late medieval English economy by enterprise, money, and credit in a
period which saw its major export trade in wool, which earned most
of its money-supply, suffer from prolonged periods of warfare, high
taxation, adverse weather, and mortality of sheep. Consequently,
the economy suffered from severe shortages of coin, as well as from
internal political conflicts, before the plague of 1348-9 halved
the population. The book examines from the Statute Merchant
certificates of debt, the extent to which credit, which normally
reflects economic activity, was affected by these events, and the
extent to which London, and the leading counties were affected
differently by them. The analysis covers the entire kingdom, decade
by decade, and thereby contributes to the controversy whether
over-population or shortage of coin most inhibited its development.
This study examines the influence of commercial interests on the
expansion of the British Empire in Western India in the age of
Cornwallis and Wellesley. It questions some of the assumptions
which have been accepted as explanations of British imperialism in
that part of India. The chief of these is that the reform of the
East India Company's administration in the 1780s brought the policy
of the Bombay presidency under the firm control of the
governor-general in Bengal and of the Court of Directors and the
Board of Control in London.
The sixteen articles in this collection analyse the contribution
made by overseas trade, and the wealth in coin which it created, to
the development of the English economy and locate this in an
European-wide setting. In time, they range from the late
Anglo-Saxon period up to the advent of the Tudors. The papers
include general surveys of the importance of coinage and credit in
the rise and decline of a market economy, and of the way that
credit functioned in a society that lacked reliable supplies of
bullion and which was also subject to the scourges of warfare and
devastating disease. They illustrate, too, how from the tenth
century the English crown used its control and exploitation of the
coinage as part of a sophisticated fiscal system which helped
create the precocious power of the English state. The author
further shows how the wool trade altered the geographical pattern
of wealth and enriched peasants, landowners and merchants, while
the competing interests involved in the trade also cause political
conflicts in Parliament and in the government of London during the
period when London was establishing itself as the political capital
and the financial centre of the kingdom.
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