Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/2008 - 7/31/2008

Funding Totals

$6,000.00 (approved)
$6,000.00 (awarded)


Credit, Alchemy, and Death: Histories of the British Financial Revolution

FAIN: FT-56411-08

Carl Wennerlind
Barnard College (New York, NY 10027-6909)

Credit, Alchemy, and Death: Histories of the British Financial Revolution examines the plethora of societal and intellectual changes that took place during the long seventeenth-century and facilitated the formation of a culture of credit in Britain. While other scholars have pointed to the economic features of the financial revolution, my book illuminates the complex societal and political changes necessary for a culture of credit to emerge. By showing that this process was not solely an economic phenomenon, but one that also involved changes in scientific, political, legal, and colonial thinking and practices, my book provides a new understanding of the origins of credit and the implications of its rapid expansion during this period.





Associated Products

Casualties of Credit (The English Financial Revolution, 1620-1720) (Book)
Title: Casualties of Credit (The English Financial Revolution, 1620-1720)
Author: Carl Wennerlind
Abstract: Traces how the discourse on credit evolved and responded to the Glorious Revolution, the Scientific Revolution, the founding of the Bank of England, the Great Recoinage, armed conflicts with Louis XIV, the Whig-Tory party was, the formation of the public sphere, and England's expanded role in the slave trade.
Year: 2008
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Type: Other