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Historian Andrew Edwards, lecturer at the University of St. Andrews, discusses his new book that offers a fascinating story of power and economic ideas during America’s founding era. Everyone knows that the founders waged a revolt against taxation without representation, though the dispute over taxes was really a dispute over money: what it was, who could make it, and how to keep it from being used at the expense of the colonists in North America. Drawing from his narrative that spans four continents, Edwards demonstrates that the colonists may have won the battle for representation, but the money that underpinned European empire had established a stronghold in the new republic.

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About the Speaker

Andrew David Edwards is a lecturer at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2018. Before joining the School of History at the University of St. Andrews, Dr. Edwards was the inaugural Career Development Fellow in the Global History of Capitalism at Brasenose College, Oxford and a Sawyer Fellow at the New School for Social Research in New York City. His research, which focuses on early America, capitalism and money, has appeared in Past & Present, The Journal of American History, Law & Social Inquiry and L’Atelier du Centre de recherches historiques.