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050	0	0	_aDA480 _b.B74 1990
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100	1		_aBrewer, John, _d1947-
245	1	4	_aThe sinews of power : _bwar, money, and the English state, 1688-1783 / _cJohn Brewer.
250			_a1st Harvard University pbk. ed.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. : _bHarvard University Press, _c1990.
300			_axxii, 290 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
365			_bRs. 4501.00
500			_aOriginally published: London : Century Hutchinson, 1988.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aBefore the revolution, the English state in the medieval and early modern eras; Patterns of military efforts; Civil administration, the central offices of government; Money, money, money, the growth in debts and taxes; Paradoxes of state power; Parameters of war; War and taxes; Politics of information, public knowledge and private interest; Conclusion.
520			_aThis powerful interpretation of English history provides a completely new framework for understanding how Britain emerged in the eighteenth century as a major international power. [The author's] analysis makes clear that the drastic increase in Britain's military involvement (and success) in Europe and the expansion of her commercial and imperial interests would not have happened without a concurrent radical increase in taxation, along with a surge in deficit financing and the growth of a substantial public administration. Warfare and taxes reshaped the English economy, and at the heart of these dramatic changes lay an issue that is still very much with us today: the tension between a nation's aspirations to be a major power and fear of the domestic consequences of such an ambition - namely, the loss of liberty. [He] poses another question of great importance ... how did a small island, of no great population, and which had, for the most part, played an insignificant role in seventeenth-century Europe, transform itself, in the space of sixty years, into a great naval power with an immense empire?
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xPolitics and government _y18th century.
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xPolitics and government _y1689-1702.
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xHistory, Military _y18th century.
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xEconomic conditions _y18th century.
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