Departmental and central government accountability to the UK Parliament was based principally on cash transactions for a period of over 300 years commencing with the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Beginning in the second decade of the nineteenth century, recurrent proposals for the replacement of...

Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: synthesis and engagement -- PART I: The discipline -- 1. Structures, territories and tribes -- 2....