The Currency of Empire

"Money and fiscal policy precipitated many of the most significant political conflicts between England and the American colonies in the seventeenth century. Competition over silver currency in particular provoked a transatlantic crisis in the 1670s and 1680s, ameliorated only with the onset of a new imperial-colonial bargain in the 1690s"--

Jonathan Barth is Assistant Professor of History at Arizona State University. He has published in numerous journals including William & Mary Quarterly and New England Quarterly.