The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688-

ISBN: 0674809300

Author: Brewer, John

Condition: new

John Brewer provides a new framework for understanding Britains emergence in the eighteenth century as a major international power. Warfare and taxes reshaped the English economy, but at the heart of these dramatic changes lay a tension between the nations aspirations to be a major power and fear of the domestic consequences: the loss of liberty.

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