{"product_id":"the-currency-of-empire-9781501755774","title":"The Currency of Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Currency of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe export-oriented mercantile economy promoted by the English Crown, Barth argues, directed the plan for colonization, the regulation of colonial commerce, and the politics of empire. The imperial project required an orderly flow of gold and silver, and thus England's colonial regime required stringent monetary regulation. As Barth shows, money was also a flash point for resistance; many colonists acutely resented their subordinate economic station, desiring for their local economies a robust, secure, and uniform money supply. This placed them immediately at odds with the mercantilist laws of the empire and precipitated an imperial crisis in the 1670s, a full century before the Declaration of Independence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Currency of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e examines what were a series of explosive political conflicts in the seventeenth century and demonstrates how the struggle over monetary policy prefigured the patriot reaction to the Stamp Act and so-called Intolerable Acts on the eve of American independence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThanks to generous funding from the Arizona State University and George Mason University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu\/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Barth is Assistant Professor of History at Arizona State University. He has published in numerous journals including \u003ci\u003eWilliam \u0026amp; Mary Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew England Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50443501830418,"sku":"9781501755774","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5c15d1cb-e99b-41fa-97a3-bd388cc5a64c.jpg?v=1729674169","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-currency-of-empire-9781501755774","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}