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Can a single word explain the world? In the British eighteenth century, interest comes close: it lies at the foundation of the period’s thinking about finance

This innovative collection explores how a distinctively British model of sociability developed in the period from the Restoration of Charles II to the early nin

This collection of essays explores the emergence of economic societies in the British Isles and their development into a European, American and global reform mo

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