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.

• ContentsList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations1 Introduction: The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660–1815Aaron Graham and Patrick Walsh2 Revisiting The Sinews of Power John Brewer3 Banks, Paper Currency and the Fiscal State: The Case of Ireland, Stated, 1660–1783Charles Ivar McGrath4 The Role of Civilians in Military Supply During the Williamite-Jacobite War in Ireland, 1689–91Alan J. Smyth5 Military Contractors and the Money Markets, 1700–15Aaron Graham6 The Silk Interest and the Fiscal-Military StateWilliam Farrell7 Enforcing the Fiscal State: The Army, the Revenue and the Irish Experience of the Fiscal-Military State, 1690–1769Patrick Walsh8 The Fiscal-Military State and Labour in the British Atlantic WorldMatthew P. Dziennik9 Subsidy State or Drawback Province? Eighteenth-Century Scotland and the British Fiscal-Military ComplexAndrew Mackillop10 The British Fiscal-Military State in the Late Eighteenth Century: A Naval Historical PerspectiveRoger Morriss11 Challenging the Fiscal-Military Hegemony: The British CaseSteve Pincus and James RobinsonAfterwordStephen ConwaySelect BibliographyIndex