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The study of 18th century history has been transformed by the writings of John Brewer, and most recently, with "The Sinews of Power", which challenged the central concepts of British history. Forced to pay the costs of war in defence of her growing empire, the power of the British state increased dramatically. "Laissez faire" melts away, and a stronger, more centralized and powerful state emerges centre stage. In "An Imperial State at War", the leading historians of the 18th century put the Brewer thesis under the spotlight.
| ISBN | 0415061423 | | Pages | 384 | | ISBN13 | 9780415061421
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 794 | | Imprint | Routledge | | Published in | London | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 234 | | Publication date | 16 Dec 1993 | | Width (mm) | 156 | | Library of Congress | DA67.I47 1 | | Spine width (mm) | 30 | | DEWEY | 941.06 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate | | DEWEY edition | DC12A | |
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| | | Notes on contributors | | | | 1 | | Introduction by Lawrence Stone | | 1 | | 2 | | The Sinews of Power and European State-Building Theory by Thomas Ertman | | 33 | | 3 | | The Eighteenth-Century British State: Contexts and issues by John Brewer | | 52 | | 4 | | Society and the Economy in the Eighteenth Century by E. A. Wrigley | | 72 | | 5 | | The Domestic Face of the Military-Fiscal State: Government and society in eighteenth-century Britain by Joanna Innes | | 96 | | 6 | | Empire of Virtue: The imperial project and Hanoverian culture c. 1720-1785 by Kathleen Wilson | | 128 | | 7 | | The Reach of the State, the Appeal of the Nation: Mass arming and political culture in the Napoleonic Wars by Linda Colley | | 165 | | 8 | | Maritime Strength and Atlantic Commerce: The uses of 'a grand marine empire' by Daniel A. Baugh | | 185 | | 9 | | Union, State and Empire: The Britain of 1707 in its European setting by John Robertson | | 224 | | 10 | | The Provinces and the Empire: Scotland, the American colonies and the development of British provincial identity by Ned C. Landsman | | 258 | | 11 | | Irish Resistance to Empire? 1641, 1690 and 1798 by Nicholas Canny | | 288 | | 12 | | The British Military-Fiscal State and Indigenous Resistance: India 1750-1820 by C. A. Bayly | | 322 | | | | Index | | 355 |
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