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Credit and Power: The Paradox at the Heart of the British National Debt by Simon Sherratt

Routledge Studies in Modern British History

Credit and Power: The Paradox at the Heart of the British National Debt

Simon Sherratt

256 pages hardcover 2020

3 editions

nonfiction economics history politics
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This book reveals the surprising role that credit, money created ex nihilo by financiers, played in raising the British government’s war loans between 1793 and 1815. Using often overlooked contemporary objections to the National Debt a startling p...

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