Financial and Commercial Policy Under the Cromwellian Protectorate

by Maurice Ashley

Overview

First Published in 1972. A reprinting of the original volume on Financial and Commercial Policy Under the Cromwellian Protectorate from its first edition in 1934, this is includes an updated preface by the author addressing comments from the first editions and new studies and laws that have come to light.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136233678
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/28/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Maurice Ashley

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Government and the Commercial Classes; Chapter 2 Commercial and Financial Programmes of Government and Merchant; Chapter 3 Commercial and Financial Programmes of Politician and Puritan; Chapter 4 Public Finance; Chapter 5 Government Expenditure; Chapter 6 Taxes; Chapter 7 Taxes; Chapter 8 Taxes; Chapter 9 The Remaining Sources of Revenue; Chapter 10 The Public Debt and Its Influence on the Fall of the Protectorate; Chapter 11 The Government and the Chartered Trading Companies; Chapter 12 Foreign Trade Outside the Companies; Chapter 13 Trade and Shipping; Chapter 14 The Depression of 1659–601For this section generally I must acknowledge the kindness of Lord Beveridge in permitting me to inquire into the results of the work of his international price statistics research committee on my period. The Index numbers I quote are provisional numbers made out by this committee; the wheat prices, however, are final.; Chapter 15 Conclusion;