Mercantilism, still a Useful Concept for Imperial History?
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Reviewing the recent historiography of British mercantilism, this paper discusses whether the concept is still useful for writing Britain’s first empire in the 17th and 18th centuries. The paper stresses the contested nature of the metropole’s mercantilist regulations within the British Atlantic, in which colonists often adapted themselves to the mercantilist regime in flexible and diverse ways. To make the empire work for their own benefits, colonists adopted mercantilist regulations selectively, and were even able to change them through vigorous lobbying to suit their local political economies. By appraising the recent contributions of Steve Pincus and others on the ideological dimension of transatlantic dialogue over mercantilism, the paper also highlights the ways in which discussion over the political economies of British empire was often intertwined with partisan politics from the late 17th century onwards. Although not entirely convinced with the argument that competing visions of empire were formulated largely within the context of Whig/Tory political strife, the paper suggests that this line of study deserve closer empirical research, which will reinvigorate discussion over mercantilism.
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Reviewing the recent historiography of British mercantilism, this paper discusses whether the concept is still useful for writing Britain’s first empire in the 17th and 18th centuries. The paper stresses the contested nature of the metropole’s mercantilist regulations within the British Atlantic, in which colonists often adapted themselves to the mercantilist regime in flexible and diverse ways. To make the empire work for their own benefits, colonists adopted mercantilist regulations selectively, and were even able to change them through vigorous lobbying to suit their local political economies. By appraising the recent contributions of Steve Pincus and others on the ideological dimension of transatlantic dialogue over mercantilism, the paper also highlights the ways in which discussion over the political economies of British empire was often intertwined with partisan politics from the late 17th century onwards. Although not entirely convinced with the argument that competing visions of empire were formulated largely within the context of Whig/Tory political strife, the paper suggests that this line of study deserve closer empirical research, which will reinvigorate discussion over mercantilism.
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