Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-277) and index.
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Changing strategies and global power in the long eighteenth century -- Eighteenth-century realities and historiographical approaches -- Administering the fiscal-military state : ordinary revenues : trusting in a consumers world -- Increasing revenue through administration change : direct administration of taxes -- Growing needs : the cost of war and extraordinary revenue -- Foreseeing difficulties and administering for the future : the public debt -- The administration of income : spending and the contractor state -- Shipbuilding, the navy and the contractor state -- Arms provisioning and the contractor state -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.
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