Corruption, party, and government in Britain: 1702 - 1713

This title offers an innovative and original reinterpretation of state formation in eighteenth-century Britain, reconceptualising it as a political and fundamentally partisan process. Focussing on the supply of funds to the army during the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-13), it demonstrates tha...

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1. Verfasser: Graham, Aaron 1984- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford Univ. Press 2015
Ausgabe:1. ed.
Schriftenreihe:Oxford historical monographs
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Zusammenfassung:This title offers an innovative and original reinterpretation of state formation in eighteenth-century Britain, reconceptualising it as a political and fundamentally partisan process. Focussing on the supply of funds to the army during the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-13), it demonstrates that public officials faced multiple incompatible demands, but that political partisanship helped to prioritise them, and to hammer out settlements that embodied a version of the national interest.
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 305 S.)
ISBN:9780191801990
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738787.001.0001