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Suggested Readings

David Armitage, The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Jan de Vries, The Economy of Europe in an Age of Crisis, 1600-1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976)

Richard Drayton, Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain and the 'Improvement' of the World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000)

Istvan Hont, Jealousy of Trade (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005)

Sankar Muthu, Enlightenment against Empire (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003)

Patrick O'Brien, 'Inseparable Connections: Trade, Economy, Fiscal State, and the Expansion of Empire, 1688-1815', in The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol. 2: The Eighteenth Century, ed. P.J. Marshall, pp. 53-77 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)

David Ormrod, The Rise of Commercial Empires: England and the Netherlands in the Age of Mercantilism, 1650-1770 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)

Leandro Prados de la Escosura, ed., Exceptionalism and Industrialisation: Britain and Its European Rivals, 1688-1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)

John Robertson, The Case for the Enlightenment: Political Economy in Scotland and Naples, 1680-1760 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Emma Rothschild, 'Global Commerce and the Question of Sovereignty in the 18th Century Provinces', Modern Intellectual History, Vol. 1, No. 1 (April 2004): pp. 3-25

Bernard Semmel, The Rise of Free Trade Imperialism: Classical Political Economy the Empire of Free Trade and Imperialism 1750-1850 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004)