Mercantilist Theory and Practice: The History of British Mercantilism

by Lars Magnusson

'England is a nation of shopkeepers'. Long before Napolean disdainfully paraphrased Adam Smith, British commerce had become a motor for economic growth and increased state power. This four-volume facsimile edition brings together a range of rare seventeenth- and eighteenth-century documents about the mercantile system.

1600 pages, Hardcover

First published January 29, 2008