Corruption, party, and government in Britain, 1702-1713
Aaron Graham (Author)
This title 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
eBook, English, 2015
First edition
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015