..., as well as an active secondary market in securities. ⁶ This book will examine female investors in these new public investment opportunities including the Bank of England (chartered in 1694), public corporations such as the East India Company and the South Sea Company and lesser-known ones like...

... coins credit instruments paper credit Styles John Burke Edmund Turner Thomas gold standard Bank of Ireland South Sea Company Wood’s halfpence coin scarcity paper money paper credit Ireland—monetary standard Is Ireland the only ground, where no grass will grow? Francis Hutchinson, Bishop...

...This chapter examines, from a set of networks and through their specific rhetoric, the commercial and colonial competition between European powers at the beginning of the 18th century. The English South Sea Company was conceived in response to the French successes of the 1700s, and John Law’s...

... South Sea Company South Pacific Utrecht Walpole Sir Robert War of Jenkins’ Ear Anne queen of England Banque générale Banque royale Canada George I king of Great Britain Louisiana Mississippi Company Stanhope James 1st earl Sunderland earl of Gould Nathaniel Mississippi scheme pyramid...

..., which ended the War of Spanish Succession in 1713. Queen Anne gave the contract to the South Sea Company, which had been established in 1711 by Lord HighTreasurer Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, with the explicit purpose of managing the asiento. In order to meet the contract’s terms...

... Smuggling Anne queen of Great Britain Cádiz Compagnie de la Mer Pacifique Menorca War of the Spanish Succession Bay of Honduras Intelligence Labor South Sea Company Treaty of Utrecht Prizes and prize money Spanish empire Taxation Piezas de indias Council of the Indies Hosier Admiral Francis...

... Company raw materials Royal African Company South Sea Company trade companies Virginia Company Belich James migration Protestant Reformation Reformation Protestant religion settlements slave trade emigration eviction Magee Gary settler colonies Thompson Andrew Canterbury Association...

...This chapter focuses on the practice of branding African captives with the letter “A,” which presumably stood for Asiento, during the period of Britain’s slave trade to foreign colonies between 1713 and 1739. The practice was initiated by the South Sea Company, which seared...

... substantial attack upon the South Sea Company, was published on July 1, 1719. The South Sea Company had been approved by Queen Anne on June 12, 1711, and was part of Robert Harley’s plan to diminish the power of the Bank of England and the Whigs who supported it. Another work, Memoirs of a Cavalier...

... literary works London Assurance metaphor pictures representation Royal African Company South Sea Company Steele Richard Censor economics efficient market hypothesis Fama Eugene New Yorker Theobold Lewis affect desire Federal Reserve System Greenspan Alan irrational exuberance Schiller...

... wealthy merchants who participated in privateering ventures while others operated small-scale shops and taverns. The majority of Kingston’s women entrepreneurs were also enslavers. After gaining a monopoly on the slave trade with the Spanish Empire, the South Sea Company made Kingston its base. The city’s...

... Forbonnais Véron de Middleton George 19 March 1720 arrêt banning the import of silver and gold specie and bullion into France Amsterdam Craggs James Dubois abbé Guillaume Holland Law William brother of John Law Lévy Claude‐Frédéric South Sea Company Stair John Dalrymple 2nd Earl of Stanhope Lord...

... lending regulation generally Smith Adam Galbraith J K idiocy market optimism Michelet J assignats counterfeiting currency French Revolution Burke Edmund Spang R L tulip mania East India Company South Sea Company Banque Générale de France luxury assignats utility happiness The financial...