Britain's fiscal-military state in the eighteenth century: Recent trends in historiography
John Brewer's argument that eighteenth-century Britain developed a centralized and effective fiscal-military state that allowed it to become a great power has been instrumental in making early modern state-building an important field of inquiry for historians. New directions in the field explor...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2024
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History compass
Year: 2024, Volume: 22, Issue: 1 |
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Summary: | John Brewer's argument that eighteenth-century Britain developed a centralized and effective fiscal-military state that allowed it to become a great power has been instrumental in making early modern state-building an important field of inquiry for historians. New directions in the field explore conflicting eighteenth-century ideologies, the notion of a ‘naval-military’ state, the non-military dimensions of the state, the nature of the Irish and Scottish fiscal-military states, the relationship between Britain's central state and colonial states, and the relationship between the state and the informal actors who served it. |
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ISSN: | 1478-0542 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: History compass
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/hic3.12794 |