Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century offers a
new approach to the relationship between warfare and state construction. Historians looking …

Corruption, Party, and Government in Britain, 1702-1713 offers an innovative and original
reinterpretation of state formation in eighteenth-century Britain, reconceptualising it as a …

At the start of the eighteenth century Louis XIV needed to remit huge sums of money abroad
to support his armies during the War of the Spanish Succession. This book explains how …

The economic problems of the 1690s spurred an extraordinary surge in politicised debates
and complaints about commercial, financial and other material affairs. This article begins by …

This essay explores those in pre-modern Britain (chiefly the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries) who were accused of corruption and yet denied their guilt and made defenses …

Abstract The British Navy's Victualling Board was created in 1683 after more than a century
of victual attempts rife with corruption, incompetence, and inedibles; and ended in 1832 with …

Corruption by office holders in eighteenth‐century B ritish institutions, from state to local
level, played an instrumental role in the emergence of modern bureaucracy, and the …

The recent financial crisis has highlighted conflicts of interests between socio-economic
groups over economic policy. The disputes over who does and who should bear the greatest …

This article argues that the failed campaign of one former clerk against corruption in the
Royal Navy's sick and wounded service during the Nine Years War sheds light on some …

While the problem of political corruption in mid-nineteenth century Britain has been much
studied, the experience of corrupt behaviour in public bodies, both new and long …