Overview
- Uncovers a previously understudied and unacknowledged financial institution known as Thompson and Company
- Reconstructs the institution of Thompson and Company through a microhistorical study
- Situates the reconstructed institution within its economic, commercial, financial, and political contexts
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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Banking, Projecting, and Politicking uncovers a previously understudied and unacknowledged financial institution in late-seventeenth-century England known as Thompson and Company. Whilst the institution has been briefly mentioned in literary studies focusing on the poet and politician Andrew Marvell, it has never been the sole focus of an economic, financial, commercial, or political study in its own right. As such, nothing is known of how it operated, where it sits in the history of English finance, why it collapsed, or what it can tell us about wider Restoration society and its economic and political culture. Through a microhistorical study, the book reconstructs the institution of Thompson and Company, the social networks of its partners, the identity of its creditors, and the events and circumstances that led to its collapse.
The book situates the reconstructed institution within its economic, commercial, financial, and political contexts, using the evidence accruedto question the traditional narrative of financial and commercial development, credit systems, the relationship between economics, finance, commerce and politics, and the place of risk and strategy in gendered relations, credit, and social status. The book will be of interest to academics and students in economic history, financial and business history.Authors and Affiliations
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Book Title: Banking, Projecting and Politicking in Early Modern England
Book Subtitle: The Rise and Fall of Thompson and Company 1671‒1678
Authors: Mabel Winter
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90570-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90569-9Published: 13 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90572-9Published: 14 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-90570-5Published: 12 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 300
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, Financial History