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The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World

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Editors:
  1. Sophus A. Reinert

    1. Harvard Business School, USA

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  2. Pernille Røge

    1. University of Pittsburgh, USA

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Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: The Political Economy of Empire

    1. Introduction: The Political Economy of Empire

      • Sophus A. Reinert, Pernille Røge
      Pages 1-7
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  3. Theorising the Early Modern Empire

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. An Empire of Trade: Commercial Reason of State in Seventeenth-Century Holland

      • Jan Hartman, Arthur Weststeijn
      Pages 11-31
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    3. A Natural Order of Empire: The Physiocratic Vision of Colonial France after the Seven Years’ War

      • Pernille Røge
      Pages 32-52
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    4. Adam Smith on American Economic Development and the Future of the European Atlantic Empires

      • Thomas Hopkins
      Pages 53-75
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    5. Views from the South: Images of Britain and Its Empire in Portuguese and Spanish Political Economic Discourse, ca. 1740–1810

      • Gabriel Paquette
      Pages 76-104
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    6. The Empire of Emulation: A Quantitative Analysis of Economic Translations in the European World, 1500–1849

      • Sophus A. Reinert
      Pages 105-128
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  5. Back Matter

    Pages 221-241
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About this book

This collection of essays draws on fresh readings of classic texts as well as rigorous research in the archives of Europe's greatest imperial power. Its contributors paint a powerful picture of the nature and implementation of political economy in the long eighteenth century, from the East to the West Indies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Harvard Business School, USA

    Sophus A. Reinert

  • University of Pittsburgh, USA

    Pernille Røge

About the editors

Sophus A. Reinert is Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy unit at Harvard Business School, USA. He has published widely on the history of political economy and is the author of Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy (2011).

 
Pernille Røge is Assistant Professor in French and French Imperial History at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She was a Research Fellow and College Lecturer in History at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge from 2009 to 2012. She has published widely on eighteenth-century French political economy and empire.

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