Mercantilist Institutions for the Pursuit Of Power with Profit. The Management Of Britain’s National Debt, 1756-1815

The Rise Of Britain’s Fiscal Naval StateIn outline (if not in the chronological detail required for a complete and satisfactory historical narrative) the reasons why the United Kingdom evolved between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the Congress of Vienna of 1815, into the most powerful fiscal military state in Europe have become clearer since Peter Dickson inaugurated the modern debate with the publication of The Financial Revolution in England some four decades ago.That seminal book (subtitled “A Study in the Development of Public Credit 1688-1756” directed attention to the economic and geopolitical significance of a political consensus and network of institutions for the accumulation of a national debt required for the rise of British power.[...]