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🔴 **“One Certain Standard”: Colonial Currencies and the Politics of Economic Knowledge in Late Stuart Britain**

_“Chronic coin shortages plagued Ireland and Britain's American colonies throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Despite complaints, every proposal to mint money in early modern Britain's overseas Atlantic empire failed, whether in Ireland, the Caribbean, or North America. This article explains why.”_

Caden, M. (2024) ‘“One Certain Standard”: Colonial Currencies and the Politics of Economic Knowledge in Late Stuart Britain’, Journal of British Studies, pp. 1–27. doi: doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2024.119.

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