Ben Dew is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies at the University of Portsmouth

• Introduction Part I1 Tacitean history: Francis Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII2 Exemplary history: William Camden's Annales3 Chronology and commerce: Edmund Howes' AnnalesPart II4 The English Civil War and the politics of economic statecraft5 Whig history: Paul de Thoyras de Rapin's Histoire6 Tory history: Thomas Salmon's Modern History7 Jacobite history: Thomas Carte's General HistoryPart III8 Economic statecraft and economic progress: William Guthrie's General History9 The end of economic statecraft: David Hume's History of England ConclusionNotes BibliographyIndex

'In this fine study, Ben Dew perceptively examines seventeenth- and eighteenth-century-historians of England’s narratives and normative assessments of commerce and finance, as well as monarchical policies designed to shape the new economic conditions. [...] Commerce, Finance and Statecraft deserves a wide readership. Among its many strengths, Dew’s book provides scholars working within the field of History of Capitalism with a timely meditation on the politics of the historians’ choices in how they explain and assess the past to shape the future.'Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College, Columbia University), in The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats (Autumn 2020).

Ben Dew is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies at the University of Portsmouth

• Introduction Part I1 Tacitean history: Francis Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII2 Exemplary history: William Camden's Annales3 Chronology and commerce: Edmund Howes' AnnalesPart II4 The English Civil War and the politics of economic statecraft5 Whig history: Paul de Thoyras de Rapin's Histoire6 Tory history: Thomas Salmon's Modern History7 Jacobite history: Thomas Carte's General HistoryPart III8 Economic statecraft and economic progress: William Guthrie's General History9 The end of economic statecraft: David Hume's History of England ConclusionNotes BibliographyIndex

'In this fine study, Ben Dew perceptively examines seventeenth- and eighteenth-century-historians of England’s narratives and normative assessments of commerce and finance, as well as monarchical policies designed to shape the new economic conditions. [...] Commerce, Finance and Statecraft deserves a wide readership. Among its many strengths, Dew’s book provides scholars working within the field of History of Capitalism with a timely meditation on the politics of the historians’ choices in how they explain and assess the past to shape the future.'Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College, Columbia University), in The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats (Autumn 2020).

Ben Dew is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Social, Historical and Literary Studies at the University of Portsmouth

• Introduction Part I1 Tacitean history: Francis Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII2 Exemplary history: William Camden's Annales3 Chronology and commerce: Edmund Howes' AnnalesPart II4 The English Civil War and the politics of economic statecraft5 Whig history: Paul de Thoyras de Rapin's Histoire6 Tory history: Thomas Salmon's Modern History7 Jacobite history: Thomas Carte's General HistoryPart III8 Economic statecraft and economic progress: William Guthrie's General History9 The end of economic statecraft: David Hume's History of England ConclusionNotes BibliographyIndex

'In this fine study, Ben Dew perceptively examines seventeenth- and eighteenth-century-historians of England’s narratives and normative assessments of commerce and finance, as well as monarchical policies designed to shape the new economic conditions. [...] Commerce, Finance and Statecraft deserves a wide readership. Among its many strengths, Dew’s book provides scholars working within the field of History of Capitalism with a timely meditation on the politics of the historians’ choices in how they explain and assess the past to shape the future.'Carl Wennerlind (Barnard College, Columbia University), in The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats (Autumn 2020).