Dissecting the sinews of power: international trade and the rise of Britain’s fiscal-military state, 1689-1823
We evaluate the role of taxes on overseas trade in the development of imperial Britain’s fiscal-military state. Influential work, e.g., Brewer’s Sinews of Power, attributed increased fiscal capacity to the taxation of domestic, rather than traded, goods: excise revenues, coarsely associated with dom...
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| Format: | Journal article |
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Cambridge University Press
2024
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