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The Sinews of Power

War, Money and the English State, 1688–1783

John Brewer

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$36.00 • £28.95 • €32.50

ISBN 9780674809307

Publication Date: 10/01/1990

320 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

17 tables, 1 map

World rights except United Kingdom & Commonwealth

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John Brewer is Director of the Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies and Director of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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