TY - BOOK AU - Barth,Jonathan ED - Project Muse. TI - The Currency of Empire : : Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America / SN - 9781501755798 PY - 2021/// CY - Ithaca [New York] PB - Cornell University Press KW - Money KW - Political aspects KW - fast KW - Mercantile system KW - International economic relations KW - Fiscal policy KW - United States KW - History KW - 17th century KW - Great Britain KW - Foreign economic relations KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Silver, mercantilism, and the impulse for colonization -- The first decades of English American settlement, 1607- -- Monetary upheaval, recovery and the Dutch infiltration, 1640- -- Mercantilism, mints, clipping, smuggling, and piracy, 1660- -- Empire in crisis and flux, 1670- -- Showdown in English America, 1675- -- Economic rebellion, competition, and growth in English America, 1680- -- Revolutions of 1685- -- Reconstructing a mercantilist empire, the 1690s -- The grand settlement; Open Access N2 - "Money and fiscal policy precipitated many of the most significant political conflicts between England and the American colonies in the seventeenth century. Competition over silver currency in particular provoked a transatlantic crisis in the 1670s and 1680s, ameliorated only with the onset of a new imperial-colonial bargain in the 1690s"-- UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/83794/ ER -