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The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660-c.1783 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660-c.1783 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The concept of the 'fiscal-military state', popularised by John
Brewer in 1989, has become familiar, even commonplace, to many
historians of eighteenth-century England. Yet even at the time of
its publication the book caused controversy, and the essays in this
volume demonstrate how recent work on fiscal structures, military
and naval contractors, on parallel developments in Scotland and
Ireland, and on the wider political context, has challenged the
fundamentals of this model in increasingly sophisticated and
nuanced ways. Beginning with a historiographical introduction that
places The Sinews of Power and subsequent work on the
fiscal-military state within its wider contexts, and a commentary
by John Brewer that responds to the questions raised by this work,
the chapters in this volume explore topics as varied as finance and
revenue, the interaction of the state with society, the relations
between the military and its contractors, and even the utility of
the concept of the fiscal-military state. It concludes with an
afterword by Professor Stephen Conway, situating the essays in
comparative contexts, and highlighting potential avenues for future
research. Taken as a whole, this volume offers challenging and
imaginative new perspectives on the fiscal-military structures that
underpinned the development of modern European states from the
eighteenth century onwards.
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