The Sinews of Power
War, Money and the English State, 1688–1783
- List of Tables and Figures*
- Preface
- Introduction
- I.
- 1. Before the Revolution: The English State in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras
- II.
- 2. Patterns of Military Effort
- 3. Civil Administration: The Central Offices of Government
- 4. Money, Money, Money: The Growth in Debts and Taxes
- III.
- 5. The Paradoxes of State Power
- IV.
- 6. The Parameters of War
- 7. War and Taxes
- V.
- 8. The Politics of Information: Public Knowledge and Private Interest
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- * Tables and Figures
- Tables
- 2.1. The logistics of war, 1689–1784
- 2.2. Military spending as a percentage of total government expenditure, 1688–1783
- 2.3. Military expenditure as a percentage of national income, 1710–80
- 2.4. Percentage of military men in the commons, 1715–90
- 3.1. Employees in administrative departments, 1692–1755
- 3.2. Full-time employees in the fiscal bureaucracy, 1690–1782/3
- 3.3. Growth in fiscal bureaucracy, 1690–1782/3
- 3.4. Excise employees as a percentage of revenue administration, 1690–1782/3
- 4.1. Excise establishment, 1690–1783
- 4.2. Turnover, mobility and discipline in the Excise, 1710–80
- Figures
- 2.1 Total government expenditures, 1691–1785
- 4.1 Total net tax income, 1690–1791
- 4.2 Sources of net tax revenues, 1692–1788
- 4.3 Percentage contribution to government revenue of three principal taxes
- 4.4 Excise structure, 1770
- 4.5 Supervisor Cowperthwaite’s excise round
- 4.6 Growth of the national debt, 1691–1785
- 4.7 Total debt charges as a percentage of tax revenues
- 4.8 Unfunded portion of the British debt
- 4.9 Fraction of the British debt unfunded
- 8.1 Petitions against the leather tax, 1697–9
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