Bills of Union

Analyses how thinkers on empire drew on monetary thought and banking theory address the financial, political and constitutional challenges of empire in the years before the American Revolution Highlights the overlap between financial and imperial histories and reforms in the British Atlantic during the eighteenth century, and summarises key developments and scholarship relating to both strands Examines the various proposals for an imperial monetary union and paper currency based on the principles of the land banking or 'specie' banking¿