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Overview

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Origin

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The Eighteenth Century

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The Second Hundred Years' War and the growth of the British debt

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The American Revolution

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The Nineteenth Century

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The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

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Crowding out and the Industrial Revolution

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Pax Britannica and the reduction of the debt

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The British debt and the long depression

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Childer's Conversion

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Goschen's Conversion

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Notes

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References

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  • Brewer, John (1988). The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-57776-0.
  • Dickson, P.G.M. (1967). The Financial Revolution in England: A Study of the Development of Public Credit 1688-1756. London: Macmillan.
  • Farrer, Thomas Henry (1891). Mr. Goschen's Finance, 1887-1890. London: National Press Agency, Ltd. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  • Goschen, George (9 March 1888). Speech in the House of Commons (Speech). Hansard. London. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  • Hamilton, Edward Walter (1889). Conversion and Redemption: An Account of the Operations under the National Debt Conversion Act, 1888, and the National Debt Redemption Act, 1889. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
  • Homer, Sidney; Sylla, Richard (1996). A History of Interest Rates (Third Edition, Revised ed.). New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
  • Horn, Martin (2002). Britain, France, and the Financing of the First World War. Montreal, Quebec: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-77-352293-0.
  • Sumida, Jon Tetsuro (1989). In Defence of Naval Supremacy: Finance, Technology, and British Naval Policy 1889-1914. Winchester, Mass.: Unwin Hyman Limited.
  • Wennerlind, Carl (2011). Casualties of Credit: The English Financial Revolution, 1620–1720. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-67-404738-9.