Mercantilist Theory and Practice Vol 4: The History of British Mercantilism [Hardcover]

'England is a nation of shopkeepers'. Long before Napolean disdainfully paraphrased Adam Smith, British commerce had become a motor for economic growth and increased state power. This four-volume facsimile edition brings together a range of rare seventeenth- and eighteenth-century documents about the mercantile system.'England is a nation of shopkeepers'. Long before Napolean disdainfully paraphrased Adam Smith, British commerce had become a motor for economic growth and increased state power. This four-volume facsimile edition brings together a range of rare seventeenth- and eighteenth-century documents about the mercantile system.Introduction, Peter Chamberlen, Th e Poor Mans Advocate, or Englands Samaritan (1649), Henry Robinson, The Office of Addresses and Encounters (1650), Richard Haines, A Model of Government for the Good of the Poor and the Wealth of the Nation (1678), Englands Weal and Prosperity Proposed (1681), A Discourse upon the Necessity of Encouraging Mechanic Industry (1690), [ John Pollexfen], England and East-India Inconsistent in their Manufactures (1697), Charles Povey, Th e Unhappiness of England (1701), John Cary, An Essay Towards Regulating the Trade, and Employing the Poor of this Kingdom (1717), Thomas Troughear, Th e Best Way of Making our Charity Truly Beneficial to the Poor (1730), [William Hay], Remarks on the Laws Relating to the Poor ([1735]), Josiah Tucker, Reflections on the Expediency of a Law for the Naturalization of Foreign Protestants (1752), William Bailey, A Treatise on the Better Employment and more Comfortable Support of the Poor in Workhouses (1758), Editorial Notes, IndexUS