Britain's Political Economies

Julian Hoppit is Astor Professor of British History at University College London, where he has taught for over thirty years. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society, and he has held visiting fellowships at the Huntingdon Library California and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris. Previous publications include Risk and Failure in English Business, 1700–1800 (Cambridge, 2002) and A Land of Liberty? England 1689–1727 (2002). He edited the Historical Journal from 2008 to 2012 and he is the recipient of a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2016–19) to research 'Public Finances and the Union, 1707–1978'.

• Part I. Contours: 1. Introduction; 2. The legislative revolution; 3. Legislating economically; 4. The local, national, and imperial; 5. Information, interests, and political economy; Part II. Cases: 6. The political economy of the fens; 7. The political economy of wool; 8. The political economy of bounties; 9. Refiguring the British fiscal state; 10. Conclusion; Appendix 1: legislation subject scheme; Appendix 2: specific economic legislation by English and Scottish counties, 1707–1800.

'Britain's Political Economies will fundamentally alter the way we think about the nature of Britain's state-regulated economy before the Industrial Revolution.' Tim Harris, Journal of Interdisciplinary History