Books written by Perry Gauci
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Mercaderes ingleses en Alicante en el siglo XVII: estudio y edición de la correspondencia comercial de Richard Houncell & Co
José Ignacio Martínez Ruiz es profesor de Historia Económica en la Universidad de Sevilla.
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Emporium of the World: the Merchants of London 1660-1800
This book examines one of the most dynamic groups in early modern Britain, the overseas merchants of the City of London. Historians have increasingly recognized their key contribution to the...
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Revisiting The Polite and Commercial People: Essays in Georgian Politics, Society, and Culture in Honour of Professor Paul Langford
M. Ingram, Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570–1640 (Cambridge, 1987), 94 and passim. See also W. M. Jacob, Lay-People and Religion in the Early Eighteenth Century (Cambridge, 1996); J. Walsh and S. Taylor, ...
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William Beckford: First Prime Minister of the London Empire
DIVThis first-ever biography of William Beckford provides a unique look at eighteenth-century British history from the perspective of the colonies.
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The Politics of Trade: The Overseas Merchant in State and Society, 1660-1720
This book examines the political and social impact of the English overseas merchant during this key era of state development.
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Revisiting The Polite and Commercial People: Essays in Georgian Politics, Society, and Culture in Honour of Professor Paul Langford
13 K. Bloom Gewirtz, Representing the Eighteenth Century in Film and Television, 2000–2015 (Cham, Switzerland, 2017). 14 See for example P. Ziegler, King William IV (London, 1971); R. J. B. Knight, William IV: A King at Sea (London, ...
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Regulating the British Economy, 1660–1850
Perry Gauci. Victorian state as 'an honest broker between interests, the opponent of monopoly, and liberator of the individual and of associational life' – State and Market in Victorian Britain, p. 37. These general insights are meant to ...
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Regulating the British Economy, 1660-1850
The book challenges the general characterization of the period as a shift from a regulated economy to a more laissez-faire system, highlighting the uncertain but significant relationship between the state and economic interests across the ...