The Treasury 1660 1870

Author : Henry Roseveare
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000409295
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Treasury 1660-1870 written by Henry Roseveare and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-25 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1973, this book provides an account of the Treasury’s early evolution within a clearly defined period, from its emergence as a department in the reign of Charles II to the point in 1870 when its powers and internal organization were comparatively mature. By taking this broad span of two centuries it is possible to set the Treasury’s development in perspective and concentrate on three main themes: the foundation of its unchallenged authority in the late 17th Century, the construction of a working relationship with Parliament, and its internal development as an efficient, professional organization. The documents, drawn from manuscript and at the time of original publication, little known printed sources, provide the first compact record of the landmarks in the Treasury’s early history.

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Publisher : London : Athlone Press [for] University of London, Institute of Historical Research
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treasury Officials, 1660-1870 written by and published by London : Athlone Press [for] University of London, Institute of Historical Research. This book was released on 1972 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Ertman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139936085
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birth of the Leviathan written by Thomas Ertman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-13 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states which emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such different lines. Why did some become absolutist and others constitutionalist? What enabled some to develop bureaucratic administrative systems, while others remained dependent upon patrimonial practices? This book presents a new theory of state-building in medieval and early modern Europe. Ertman argues that two factors - the organisation of local government at the time of state formation and the timing of sustained geo-military competition - can explain most of the variation in political regimes and in state infrastructures found across the continent during the second half of the eighteenth century. Drawing on insights developed in historical sociology, comparative politics, and economic history, this book makes a compelling case for the value of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of political development.

Author : Aaron Graham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131703984X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660-c.1783 written by Aaron Graham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of the 'fiscal-military state', popularised by John Brewer in 1989, has become familiar, even commonplace, to many historians of eighteenth-century England. Yet even at the time of its publication the book caused controversy, and the essays in this volume demonstrate how recent work on fiscal structures, military and naval contractors, on parallel developments in Scotland and Ireland, and on the wider political context, has challenged the fundamentals of this model in increasingly sophisticated and nuanced ways. Beginning with a historiographical introduction that places The Sinews of Power and subsequent work on the fiscal-military state within its wider contexts, and a commentary by John Brewer that responds to the questions raised by this work, the chapters in this volume explore topics as varied as finance and revenue, the interaction of the state with society, the relations between the military and its contractors, and even the utility of the concept of the fiscal-military state. It concludes with an afterword by Professor Stephen Conway, situating the essays in comparative contexts, and highlighting potential avenues for future research. Taken as a whole, this volume offers challenging and imaginative new perspectives on the fiscal-military structures that underpinned the development of modern European states from the eighteenth century onwards.

Author : Aaron Graham
Publisher : Oxford Historical Monographs
ISBN 13 : 0198738781
Total Pages : 322 pages
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Download or read book Corruption, Party, and Government in Britain, 1702-1713 written by Aaron Graham and published by Oxford Historical Monographs. This book was released on 2015 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corruption, Party, and Government in Britain, 1702-1713 offers an innovative and original reinterpretation of state formation in eighteenth-century Britain, reconceptualising it as a political and fundamentally partisan process. Focussing on the supply of funds to the army during the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-13), it demonstrates that public officials faced multiple incompatible demands, but that political partisanship helped to prioritise them, and to hammer out settlements that embodied a version of the national interest. These decisions were then transmitted to agents in overseas through a mixture of personal incentives and partisan loyalties which built trust and turned these informal networks into instruments of public policy. However, the process of building trust and supplying funds laid officials and agents open to accusations of embezzlement, fraud and financial misappropriation. In particular, although successive financial officials ran entrepreneurial private financial ventures that enabled the army overseas to avoid dangerous financial shortfalls, they found it necessary to cover the costs and risks by receiving illegal 'gratifications' from the regiments. Reconstructing these transactions in detail, Corruption, Party, and Government in Britain, 1702-1713 demonstrates that these corrupt payments advanced the public service, and thus that 'corruption' was as much a dispute over ends as means. Ultimately, this volume demonstrates that state formation in eighteenth-century Britain was a contested process of interest aggregation, in which common partisan aims helped to negotiate compromises between various irreconcilable public priorities and private interests, within the frameworks provided by formal institutions, and then collaboratively imposed through overlapping and intersecting networks of formal and informal agents.

Author : Alan Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521521277
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intelligence and Espionage in the Reign of Charles II, 1660-1685 written by Alan Marshall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-13 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A balanced portrait of the dark byways of Restoration politics.

Author : Prof Richard A Chapman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134864256
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Treasury in Public Policy-Making written by Prof Richard A Chapman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1997-10-23 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the Treasury's role in public policy making and makes an original contribution to knowledge about the current work of the Treasury.The book focuses on three main areas:* the development of the Treasury from earliest times to the present* the current structure and organization of the Treasury following the radical changes which took place i

Author : Robert A. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521528641
Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book Late Georgian and Regency England, 1760-1837 written by Robert A. Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-08 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to historical literature on England between 1760 and 1837, emphasising more recent work.

Author : G. E. Aylmer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019154311X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crown's Servants written by G. E. Aylmer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crown's Servants is a major new study of English central government and the royal court from the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to the death of Charles II in 1685. A sequel to the author's two earlier studies, of royal officials under Charles I (1625-1642) and office-holders under the Commonwealth and the Cromwellian Protectorate (1649-1660), it sets out to explore the extent to which the restoration of the monarchy undid the changes brought about under the Republic. The author looks at the institutions of government, its methods and procedures, the terms and conditions of service, and its personnel both collectively and individually. He considers the policies, tasks, successes, and failures of the regime, and relates these to the process of state formation and to the impact of the state on society. This is both the culmination of a lifetime's work and a crucial contribution in its own right to the history of seventeenth century England and the development of English government.

Author : John Christopher Sainty
Publisher : Athlone Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Officials of the Boards of Trade, 1660-1870 written by John Christopher Sainty and published by Athlone Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: