First published in 1989. `The book is a distinguished work - of importance to students of governmental development generally. It is written in a fluent, non-technical manner that should reach a wide audience.' American Historical Review.
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`The book is a distinguished work - of importance to students of governmental development generally. It is written in a fluent, non-technical manner that should reach a wide audience.' American Historical Review
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Introduction PART I 1. Before the Revolution: The English State in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras PART II 2. Patterns of Military Effort 3. Civil Administration: The Central Offices of Government 4. Money, Money, Money: The Growth in Debts and Taxes PART III 5. The Paradoxes of State Power PART IV 6. The Parameters of War 7. War and Taxes PART V 8. The Politics of Information: Public Knowledge and Private Interest Conclusion Notes Index
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`The book is a distinguished work - of importance not just to eighteenth-century specialists but also to students of governmental development generally. Though authoritative and historically sophisticated, it is written in a fluent and non technical manner that should reach a wide audience. It even has a first-rate index.' - American Historical Review` ... a radical, but wholly convincing, reinterpretation of the Georgian state ... Brewer's elegant analysis shows how parliament itself, then as today, readily serves as a most effective engine for the centralisation of power.' - New Statesman and Society
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780415754927
Publisert
2014-04-24
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
460 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
312

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John Brewer is Director of the Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies and Director of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at the University of California at Los Angeles.