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War, State, and Society in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland (Hardcover)
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War, State, and Society in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland (Hardcover)
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This book explores the impact of the wars of 1739-63 on Britain and
Ireland. The period was dominated by armed struggle between Britain
and the Bourbon powers, particularly France. These wars, especially
the Seven Years War of 1756-63, saw a considerable mobilization of
manpower, materiel and money. They had important affects on the
British and Irish economies, on social divisions and the
development of what we might term social policy, on popular and
parliamentary politics, on religion, on national sentiment, and on
the nature and scale of Britain's overseas possessions and
attitudes to empire.
To fight these wars, partnerships of various kinds were necessary.
Partnership with European allies was recognized, at least by parts
of the political nation, to be essential to the pursuit of victory.
Partnership with the North American colonies was also seen as
imperative to military success. Within Britain and Ireland,
partnerships were no less important. The peoples of the different
nations of the two islands were forced into partnership, or entered
into it willingly, in order to fight the conflicts of the period
and to resist Bourbon invasion threats. At the level of 'high'
politics, the Seven Years War saw the forming of an informal
partnership between Whigs and Tories in support of the
Pitt-Newcastle government's prosecution of the war. The various
Protestant denominations - established churches and Dissenters -
were brought into a form of partnership based on Protestant
solidarity in the face of the Catholic threat from France and
Spain. And, perhaps above all, partnerships were forged between the
British state and local and private interest in order to secure the
necessarymobilization of men, resources, and money.
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