The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660-c.1783

Aaron Graham is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Junior Research Fellow in History at Jesus College, Oxford. His publications include Corruption, Party and Government in Britain, 1702–13. His research examines the intersections of politics, finance and government in Britain and its empire between 1660 and 1840. Patrick Walsh is an Irish Research Council/European Commission research fellow in the School of History at University College Dublin. His publications include The Making of the Irish Protestant Ascendancy: the Life of William Conolly, 1662–1729 and The South Sea Bubble and Ireland: Money Banking and Investment, 1690–1721.

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

1 Introduction: The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660–1815

Aaron Graham and Patrick Walsh

2 Revisiting The Sinews of Power

John Brewer

3 Banks, Paper Currency and the Fiscal State: The Case of Ireland, Stated, 1660–1783

Charles Ivar McGrath

4 The Role of Civilians in Military Supply During the Williamite-Jacobite War in Ireland, 1689–91

Alan J. Smyth

5 Military Contractors and the Money Markets, 1700–15

Aaron Graham

6 The Silk Interest and the Fiscal-Military State

William Farrell

7 Enforcing the Fiscal State: The Army, the Revenue and the Irish Experience of the Fiscal-Military State, 1690–1769

Patrick Walsh

8 The Fiscal-Military State and Labour in the British Atlantic World

Matthew P. Dziennik

9 Subsidy State or Drawback Province? Eighteenth-Century Scotland and the British Fiscal-Military Complex

Andrew Mackillop

10 The British Fiscal-Military State in the Late Eighteenth Century: A Naval Historical Perspective

Roger Morriss

11 Challenging the Fiscal-Military Hegemony: The British Case

Steve Pincus and James Robinson

Afterword

Stephen Conway

Select Bibliography

Index