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Collection Reference Number GLC08613
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to 1700-1753 
Title An act for erecting a corporation to carry on a trade to the South-Seas
Date 1711
Author Great Britain. Acts.  
Document Type Pamphlet
Content Description Establishing the South Seas company. Overspeculation in the company's stock led to the "bubble" and the crash, when it came, saw the first modern depression. With exchange stamp of Harvard's Baker Library
Subjects Global History and Civics  Foreign Affairs  Business and Finance  Finance  Australia and Pacific Islands  Commerce  Merchants and Trade  
Place written London, England
Theme Foreign Affairs; Merchants & Commerce
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859