Centre for Maritime Historical Studies
Rasor Bibliography
View entry no. 2940
Full entry text:
Brewer, John. The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783. Boston: Unwin; Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1989, 1990, xxii, 289 pp. Major contribution much commented upon; creation of modern fiscal military state.
Categories:
17th C. (1600-1699); 18th C. (1700-1799); fiscal-military state,; logistics;
Keywords:
18th century, eighteenth, 17th century, seventeenth, fiscal-military state, taxation, administration, bureaucracy, logistics, supply, supplies,