Corruption, Party, and Government in Britain, 1702-1713

Zusatztext This book's rehabilitation of Brydges and its neo-Namierite analysis of the arrangements for financing eighteenth-century warfare is valuable insofar as it counters the continuing tendency among historians to apply anachronistic models of bureaucracy and corruption. Informationen zum Autor Aaron Graham received his doctorate from Oxford in 2012, and is currently a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Junior Research Fellow in History at Jesus College, Oxford. He has also been Earhart Foundation Fellow in American History at the William L. Clements Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and an Andrew M. Mellon Fellow at the Henry E. Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and has published articles in English Historical Review and Historical Journal. His research examines the intersections of politics, finance, and government in Britain and its empire between 1660 and 1840. Klappentext Offers an innovative and original reinterpretation of state formation in eighteenth-century Britain, reconceptualising it as a political and fundamentally partisan process. Zusammenfassung Offers an innovative and original reinterpretation of state formation in eighteenth-century Britain, reconceptualising it as a political and fundamentally partisan process. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Conventions Abbreviations 1: The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660-1830 2: Public Finance and the Pay Office 3: The Pay Office under Charles Fox, 1702-1705 4: The Pay Office in Northern Europe, 1705-1710 5: The Pay Office in Southern Europe, 1705-1710 6: James Brydges and the Pay Office, 1710-1714 7: Conclusion: A Partisan-Political State, 1660-1830 Appendices Bibliography

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• Authors: Aaron Graham, Aaron (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Graham, Aaron (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Junior Research Fellow in History Graham, Graham Aaron
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2015
• EAN: 9780198738787
• ISBN: 978-0-19-873878-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Oxford Historical Monographs; Oxford Historical Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Corruption & Misconduct, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Political corruption, Economic history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Corruption in politics, government and society