Money, Politics and Power : Banking and Public Finance in Wartime England, 1694?96 (Hardcover)

1. Introduction Part I: The institutional and economic context 2. England’s wartime system of public finance 3. The inception of the Bank of England 4. Parliamentary measures against clipping and bullion exports, 1689-95 5. The growing problem of war remittances 6. Land-bank projects, 1694-95 Part II: The political and policy narrative 7. The administrative debate on the state of the currency, September?November 1695 8. The act for remedying the ill state of the coin, November 1695?January 1696 9. Banking projects and public finance, early 1696 10. Guineas and the National Land Bank, February?April 1696 11. Connecting the dots: monetary policies as means to political ends 12. Monetary and financial crisis in England and the plight of the English army in Flanders, spring ? summer 1696 13. Concluding remarks Index