Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Plates, Figures and Tables
- Editorial Note
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Varieties of Innovation: Ireland, Scotland and the Financial Revolution 1688–1720
- 2 Banking and Investment on the Periphery: The Case of Ireland
- 3 Investment from the Periphery: Irish Investors in the South Sea Company in Comparative and Transnational Perspective
- 4 ‘Most of Our Money of This Kingdom is gone over to the South Sea’: Irish Investors and the South Sea Company
- 5 ‘Nothing here but Misery’? The Economic Impact of the South Sea Bubble on Ireland
- 6 ‘A Thing They Call a Bank’: Irish Projects in the South Sea Year
- 7 The Proposals for a National Bank and the Irish Investment Community in 1720
- 8 ‘A Strong Presumption That This Bank May be a Bubble’: Misreading the Bubble and the Bank of Ireland Debates, 1721
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Plates, Figures and Tables
- Editorial Note
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Varieties of Innovation: Ireland, Scotland and the Financial Revolution 1688–1720
- 2 Banking and Investment on the Periphery: The Case of Ireland
- 3 Investment from the Periphery: Irish Investors in the South Sea Company in Comparative and Transnational Perspective
- 4 ‘Most of Our Money of This Kingdom is gone over to the South Sea’: Irish Investors and the South Sea Company
- 5 ‘Nothing here but Misery’? The Economic Impact of the South Sea Bubble on Ireland
- 6 ‘A Thing They Call a Bank’: Irish Projects in the South Sea Year
- 7 The Proposals for a National Bank and the Irish Investment Community in 1720
- 8 ‘A Strong Presumption That This Bank May be a Bubble’: Misreading the Bubble and the Bank of Ireland Debates, 1721
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This book is about the impact of one international financial crisis on people and places removed from its centre. It was written during another one. Readers seeking lessons from the experiences of Irish investors in the South Sea Company to help escape the post-2008 global financial crisis may not, however, find them in this book. Nevertheless this project, which was conceived in late 2007, and which was started in earnest a year later as the Eurozone crisis hit Ireland, was researched and written with the storms of the current crisis raging in the background. The impact of these contemporary events on its content is, however, if anything, of the unconscious variety. Despite occasional temptations, direct parallels have been avoided, although readers may wish to draw their own inferences. If the global economic circumstances within which this book was written were rather precipitous this has, however, been a good time to be involved in financial and economic history with these sub-disciplines enjoying new levels of popular and scholarly attention. This renewed interest in what were previously arcane subjects has helped to make writing this book a much easier task. Financially this research was initially funded by a two-year postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences, which allowed me to develop my ideas in the congenial and supportive environment of the School of History and Archives at University College Dublin.
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- The South Sea Bubble and IrelandMoney, Banking and Investment, 1690–1721, pp. viii - ixPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014