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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Fiscal-military state"”.
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The Scientific-Military State, Science and the Making of American Government, 1776-1855
… the intertwined formations of the American state and American science. It argues that, from the founding of the republic, scientific knowledge was at the heart of the formation of the federal government, and the federal government was an important force in the development of science in …
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Colonial Investments: The Global Coordinates of the English Political Imaginary, 1628–1668
… group of merchants, peers, and MPs mobilized the military and financial technologies of colonization to support Parliament’s war against Charles I, their ventures in the Indian and Atlantic oceans resonated in the halls of Westminster and the chambers of state finance. In the crucible of civil …
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Military recruiting in the Scottish Highalnds 1739-1815: the political, social and economic context
… of government, landlords and tenantry using estate papers, notably the Macleod of Dunvegan and Gordon Castle Muniments, the Forfeited Estates papers and Campbell of Breadalbane collection. Recruiting is analysed within the context of rapid socio-economic change. The emphasis is on tenant …
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The eye of the needle: magnetic survey and the compass of capital in the age of revolution and reform
… decades of the nineteenth century, significant fiscal-military state resources were directed toward linking three momentous magnetic enterprises: Admiralty reform of practical magnetic navigation; novel electromagnetic research; and British engagement in an international campaign to survey the …
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The Administration of the Land Tax in England 1643-1733
… agriculture the mid-seventeenth century state with its outdated tax system was politically and militarily weak. Civil war and its aftermath created the urgent and protracted supply need which instigated the creation and honing of radically new effective tax forms and processes which …