The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World

1. Introduction: The Political Economy of Empire
Sophus A. Reinert, Pernille Røge

Part I. Theorising the Early Modern Empire

2. An Empire of Trade: Commercial Reason of State in Seventeenth-Century Holland
Jan Hartman, Arthur Weststeijn

3. A Natural Order of Empire: The Physiocratic Vision of Colonial France after the Seven Years’ War
Pernille Røge

4. Adam Smith on American Economic Development and the Future of the European Atlantic Empires
Thomas Hopkins

5. Views from the South: Images of Britain and Its Empire in Portuguese and Spanish Political Economic Discourse, ca. 1740–1810
Gabriel Paquette

6. The Empire of Emulation: A Quantitative Analysis of Economic Translations in the European World, 1500–1849
Sophus A. Reinert

Part II. Imperial Experiences

7. War, Peace and the Rise of the London Stock Market
Giles Parkinson

8. The Impact of Gifts and Trade: Georgia Colonists and Yamacraw Indians in the Colonial American Southeast
Claire S. Levenson

9. Retrenchment, Reform and the Practice of Military-Fiscalism in the Early East India Company State
James Lees

10. How Feeding Slaves Shaped the French Atlantic: Mercantilism and the Crisis of Food Provisioning in the Franco-Caribbean during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Bertie Mandelblatt

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Economic History, Imperialism and Colonialism, Modern History, History of Early Modern Europe