[State at Wits] Polecon June 1 | Roseveare Financial Revolution, 1660 - 1760

[Keith Breckenridge]

A reminder of this week's discussion:   Weds, 4pm, on Zoom on Roseveare's
(very short, very useful)
*Financial Revolution,
<https://archive.org/details/financialrevolut0000rose> 1660 - 1760.  *

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Keith Breckenridge  *W I S E R* - The Wits Institute for Social and
Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits,
 Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Phone +27(0)11-7174272 | Web:
wiser.wits.ac.za



On Tue, 10 May 2022 at 09:38, Keith Breckenridge <keith at breckenridge.org.za>
wrote:

> Weds, June 1, 16:00 - 17:30 Zoom link on the day.
>
> For our next meeting we'll be reading Roseveare's mercifully short, clear
> account of the institutional and economic changes in the 17th C English
> financial revolution.   The book is available in the Internet Archive,
> https://archive.org/details/financialrevolut0000rose.  It's an excellent
> summary of the story told in detail, and much greater length, by Dickson,
> and good to read with Inikori (who makes a much clearer case for the
> importance of the slave trade in the development of English finanical
> institutions).
>
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> Keith Breckenridge  *W I S E R* - The Wits Institute for Social and
> Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand | Pbag 3, PO Wits,
>  Johannesburg, South Africa, 2050 | Phone +27(0)11-7174272 | Web: wiser.wits.ac.za
>
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