1st Edition
The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660-c.1783
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1 Introduction: The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660–1815
Aaron Graham and Patrick Walsh
2 Revisiting The Sinews of Power
John Brewer
3 Banks, Paper Currency and the Fiscal State: The Case of Ireland, Stated, 1660–1783
Charles Ivar McGrath
4 The Role of Civilians in Military Supply During the Williamite-Jacobite War in Ireland, 1689–91
Alan J. Smyth
5 Military Contractors and the Money Markets, 1700–15
Aaron Graham
6 The Silk Interest and the Fiscal-Military State
William Farrell
7 Enforcing the Fiscal State: The Army, the Revenue and the Irish Experience of the Fiscal-Military State, 1690–1769
Patrick Walsh
8 The Fiscal-Military State and Labour in the British Atlantic World
Matthew P. Dziennik
9 Subsidy State or Drawback Province? Eighteenth-Century Scotland and the British Fiscal-Military Complex
Andrew Mackillop
10 The British Fiscal-Military State in the Late Eighteenth Century: A Naval Historical Perspective
Roger Morriss
11 Challenging the Fiscal-Military Hegemony: The British Case
Steve Pincus and James Robinson
Afterword
Stephen Conway
Select Bibliography
Index
Biography
Aaron Graham is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Junior Research Fellow in History at Jesus College, Oxford. His publications include Corruption, Party and Government in Britain, 1702–13. His research examines the intersections of politics, finance and government in Britain and its empire between 1660 and 1840.
Patrick Walsh is an Irish Research Council/European Commission research fellow in the School of History at University College Dublin. His publications include The Making of the Irish Protestant Ascendancy: the Life of William Conolly, 1662–1729 and The South Sea Bubble and Ireland: Money Banking and Investment, 1690–1721.
