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Title: The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-1783 by John Brewer ISBN: 0-674-80930-0 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: October, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Summary: A true work of real genius!
Comment: "From its modest beginnings as... a minor, infrequent almost inconsequential participant in the great wars that ravaged sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe... Britain emerged in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries as the military Wunderkind of the age.... [B]y the reign of George III Britain had become one of the heaviest weights in the balance of power in Europe [and]... was on the threshold of becoming a transcontinental power..."
The above quote is the opening of War, Money, and the English State. There have been many histories of Britain's military successes in the century after the expulsion of James II Stuart--biographies of the first Duke of Marlborough, histories of the British navy, narratives of the Seven Years' War, and so forth. There have been many histories of Britain's economic growth--and even attempts to explain why Britain saw such mercantile and then industrial success in the eighteenth century. But the connection? John Brewer takes on the task of filling in the gap: how was Britain's economic success translated into massive military power?
This question is especially interesting because Britain appeared to successfully mobilize its resources for eighteenth century wars in a manner very different from the continental "absolutist" powers. The apparatuses of royal secret police, lits de justice, the co-option of the middle nobility in the centralization of power and authority, and the ideology of a king "freed from the duty of observing the laws" are in large part absent from British military mobilization. It followed a different pattern--one that may have had decisive consequences for human history...
John Brewer handles his topic superbly, making The Sinews of Power one of the best books I read in 1991, and making it one of the best books I read in 1995, when I re-read it.
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Title: The Military Revolution and Political Change by Brian Downing ISBN: 0691024758 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 29 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class (Studies on the History of Society and Culture , No 23) by Anna Clark ISBN: 0520208838 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture by E. P. Thompson ISBN: 1565840747 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: August, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Birth of the Leviathan : Building States and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Thomas Ertman ISBN: 0521484278 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 13 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: British Imperialism, 1688-2000 (2nd Edition) by Peter Cain, Tony Hopkins ISBN: 0582472865 Publisher: Longman Pub. Date: 22 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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