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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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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.
`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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Tartalomjegyzék:
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
