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The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire

by Nancy F. Koehn. 239 pgs.

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Table of contents
Contents
Preface ix
ONE The Economics of War and the Politics of Peace i
TWO The Landscape of Economic Change 25
THREE Managing the "Great Machine of Trade" 61
FOUR The Political Configurations of Dominion 105
FIVE The Ambivalence of Empire 149
SIX Extending Commerce and Improving Revenue 185
Afterword 219
Bibliography 221
Index 231
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