‘Two Interesting Episodes from the Embassy of William Harborne to the Ottoman Empire’ AND ‘A principle of “Natural Justice”: Sir William Petty and the “Royal Absolutist” Case for Excise’
‘Two Interesting Episodes from the Embassy of William Harborne to the Ottoman Empire’
Tobias Graf, The Sultan’s Renegades: Christian-European Converts to Islam and the Making of the Ottoman Elite, 1575-1610 (2017);
Christine Woodhead, ‘Harborne, William’ in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
‘A principle of “Natural Justice”: Sir William Petty and the “Royal Absolutist” Case for Excise’
William Ashworth, Customs and Excise: Trade, Production, and Consumption in England 1640-1845 (2010);
D’Marris Coffman, Excise Tax and the Origins of Public Debt (2013); Noah Dauber, State and Commonwealth: The Theory of State in Early Modern England, 1549-1640 (2016).
Date:
31 January 2019, 17:00
Venue:
Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details:
The Breakfast Room
Speakers:
Joel Butler (Wadham College),
Matthew Ward (Kellogg College)
Organising department:
Faculty of History
Part of:
Early Modern Britain Seminar
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Laura Spence
