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## Contexts and Contours to explore the subtleties of the commercial and political relationships between the core and the periphery of the empire, but also detailed work on the development of the state after 1688 has enabled historians to reassess the fiscal and administrative arrangements which allowed Britain to develop the capacity to wage war and deploy resources on a global scale. Indeed, Britain in the eighteenth century has recently been described as a 'fiscal-military state' . 26 The characteristics of this state that emerged after 1688 were such that the metropolitan authorities were more often than not able to offer significant levels of support and protection to those operating in overseas territories and possessions. At the very heart of the processes which transformed England, and then Britain, into a relatively powerful state were the fiscal and government funding arrangements constituting the core of what is commonly referred to as the 'financial revolution'. By drawing on domestic and foreign resources, and by establishing mechanisms for the management of short-term debt and long-term borrowing, ministers were able to meet the sustained challenge posed by the Bourbo

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Author

H. V. Bowen (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780333622087

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Social Science