Suchergebnisse

1. Regulatory inertia and national economic growth : an African trade case study, 1660-1714 / William Pettigrew -- 2. A proactive state? The land bank, investment and party politics in the 1690s / Steve Pincus and Alice Wolfram -- 3. Regulation and rival interests in the 1690s / Mark Knights -- 4. Towards a British political economy : an eighteenth-century Scottish perspective / Bob Harris -- 5. Learning the ropes of sand : the West India lobby, 1714-60 / Perry Gauci -- 6. Political convention and the merchant in the later eighteenth century / Daeryoon Kim -- 7. Bounties, the economy and the state in Britain, 1689-1800 / Julian Hoppit -- 8. Investigation as a prelude to regulation : information, investigation and the abolition of the slave trade / Ian Barrett -- 9. Facing uncertainty : markets, norms and conventions in the eighteenth century / Philippe Minard -- 10. Regulating wages in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century England : arguments in context / Joanna Innes -- 11. The transition to factory production in the English wool textile industries : individual and family desires for labour regulation, 1720-1850 / Paul Minoletti -- 12. Rent seeking or skill creating? Apprenticeship in early industrial Britain / Jane Humphries.

Inspired by recent research on the cultural impact of economic change, an international team of leading academics and younger scholars examine the ways in which state and society responded to fundamental economic transition. The studies embrace all aspects of the regulatory process, from developing ideas on the economy, to the passage of legislation, and to the negotiation of economic policy and change in practice. The book challenges the general characterization of the period as a shift from a regulated economy to a more laissez-faire system, highlighting the uncertain but significant relatio.

This article seeks to build upon recent work on the impact of empire in mid‐18th‐century Britain by study of the electoral experience of parliamentary candidates who had lived in the West Indies and could boast a direct familiarity with the Caribbean. By 1750, a significant number of rich planters had relocated to Britain, and, in common with the Indian nabobs, their efforts to enter parliament aroused much adverse commentary at the elections of 1754–74. While these attacks were damaging to their interest, and occasioned the most thorough review of Caribbean society to date, the West Indians were able to respond by adapting their political campaigns to assuage metropolitan sensibilities, thereby ensuring that they were not bracketed with the nabobs or rebellious North Americans as imperial sources of domestic upheaval. Their success highlights the possibilities for successful imperial integration in mid‐Georgian Britain, although the West Indians could not rely on the same strategies to combat the abolitionist movement after 1787.

This article celebrates the contribution which Professor Holmes made to the field of British politics and society by the study of an important collection of political tracts. The compiler of the collection is identified as Sir Charles Cooke, one of the most significant commercial politicians of his day. The organisation of the collection illuminates the ways in which City politicians used various channels of information, both printed and personal, to support their political platforms. It also demonstrates how Cooke contributed to the defeat of the tories over the French Commerce Bill of 1713, by supplying key sources to combat the ministry's position. On a wider plane, although it suggests that partisan politics tainted all information advanced in the public sphere, this did not relieve political rivals of the need to establish the superior authority of their sources, and political success only saw Cooke redouble his efforts to gain as wide a base of information as possible. Statistical precision remained elusive, but his archive stands testament to a growing need for authority of source in a political world of party and vested interests.

L'analyse prosopographique d'un groupe de 850 marchands londoniens (à partir de la poll tax des années 1690) et d'un échantillon de 1251 firmes commerciales (répertoriées dans l'annuaire Mortimer de 1763) permet d'obtenir des informations inédites sur la communauté négociante de Londres et sur la manière dont elle s'est adaptée à cette période de prospérité. Contrairement à ce qu'avaient affirmé nombre d'historiens, son enrichissement ne s'est pas traduit par une plus grande intégration dans l'aristocratie foncière. Leur lieu de résidence – au cœur de la Cité – ainsi que leurs alliances commerciales et leurs modes de consommation témoignent à la fois du maintien d'une forte identité négociante et d'un effort d'adaptation. Cette élite professionnelle, dont l'essor démographique reste modeste, continue de s'impliquer dans les institutions urbaines, d'influencer les débats parlementaires à Westminster et d'imposer sa culture dans la Cité.