Casualties of Credit: The English Financial Revolution, 1620?Çô1720

With a circulating credit currency, a modern national debt, and sophisticated financial markets, England developed a fiscal-military state that instilled fear and facilitated the first industrial revolution. Yet this new system of credit was precarious and prone to accidents, and it depended on trust, public opinion, and ultimately violence.

• | Author: Carl Wennerlind
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: November 30, 2011
• | Number of Pages: 360 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674047389
• | ISBN-13: 9780674047389