User:Taylordw/sandbox/History of the British national debt

Overview edit

Origin edit

The Eighteenth Century edit

The Second Hundred Years' War and the growth of the British debt edit

The American Revolution edit

The Nineteenth Century edit

The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars edit

Crowding out and the Industrial Revolution edit

Pax Britannica and the reduction of the debt edit

The British debt and the long depression edit

Childer's Conversion edit

Goschen's Conversion edit

Notes edit

References edit

  • Brewer, John (1988). The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-57776-0.
  • Dickson, P.G.M. (1967). The Financial Revolution in England: A Study of the Development of Public Credit 1688-1756. London: Macmillan.
  • Farrer, Thomas Henry (1891). Mr. Goschen's Finance, 1887-1890. London: National Press Agency, Ltd. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  • Goschen, George (9 March 1888). Speech in the House of Commons (Speech). Hansard. London. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  • Hamilton, Edward Walter (1889). Conversion and Redemption: An Account of the Operations under the National Debt Conversion Act, 1888, and the National Debt Redemption Act, 1889. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  • Homer, Sidney; Sylla, Richard (1996). A History of Interest Rates (Third Edition, Revised ed.). New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
  • Horn, Martin (2002). Britain, France, and the Financing of the First World War. Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-77-352293-0.
  • Sumida, Jon Tetsuro (1989). In Defence of Naval Supremacy: Finance, Technology, and British Naval Policy 1889-1914. Winchester, Mass.: Unwin Hyman Limited.
  • Wennerlind, Carl (2011). Casualties of Credit: The English Financial Revolution, 1620–1720. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-67-404738-9.