One Certain Standard”
Colonial Currencies and the Politics of Economic Knowledge in Late Stuart Britain
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 10064441 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Mara Caden (0000-0002-0892-0800, Film Independent, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2024 |
| Volumen | 63 |
| Número | 4 |
| Páginas | 836-862 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2024-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Journal of British Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0021-9371 • E-ISSN: 1545-6986 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/jbr.2024.119 |
| OpenAlex | W4404726995 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 1 |
| Referencias citadas | 47 |
Chronic coin shortages plagued Ireland and Britain's American colonies throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Despite complaints, every proposal to mint money in early modern Britain's overseas Atlantic empire failed, whether in Ireland, the Caribbean, or North America. This article explains why. Although the rulers in the court and Parliament were sometimes enthusiastic about colonial mints, the Officers of the Royal Mint exercised enduring influence and managed to obstruct each of these projects. The evolution of the Mint officers’ advice into a maxim of monetary uniformity allowed the doctrine of “one certain standard” to survive the ensuing decades of upheaval as it shed its visible politics. While their advice grew out of the particular politics of the early Restoration, it gained special power and durability when it took on the character of technocratic expertise. Still, an investigation of the same actors’ treatment of a parallel issue—the rates of the foreign coins that circulated in colonies—reveals that an authoritarian style had an enduring hold on imperial monetary policy. This article offers an explanation for the British Empire's peculiar monetary geography, and also demonstrates the way that seemingly apolitical technical knowledge can disguise a potent politics
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| Altamente citado | No |