Name: The Sinews of Power
ISBN: 9781134998524

John Brewer

First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

War, Money and the English State 1688-1783

The Sinews of Power

John Brewer provides a new framework for understanding Britain's 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 nation's aspirations to be a major power and fear of the domestic consequences: the loss of liberty.

The Sinews of Power War, Money and the English State 1688-1783

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