J<scp>ames</scp> M. V<scp>aughn</scp>. <i>The Politics of Empire at the Accession of George III: The East India Company and the Crisis and Transformation of Britain’s Imperial State</i>.

Nechtman, Tillman W.

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“…Such insights often come from historians who study the empire as well as Scotland and Ireland. Debates on issues such as the nature of the empire, the need for territorial expansion, the East India Company and Britain's role in India divided the metropolis (Vaughan, 2019, pp. 8, 9).…”

Section: Eighteenth‐century Politics: Ideologies In Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The EIC played an important part in the British fiscal‐military state, and its finances were entangled with state finances. Interest in the company's activities was widespread in London, and it shaped ideas about how the empire should be organized (Vaughan, 2019, p. 8). The demand to reduce taxes at home went hand in hand with the decision to impose taxes on the colonies (Vaughan, 2019, pp.…”

Section: Empire: Colonial States and The Mother Statementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Interest in the company's activities was widespread in London, and it shaped ideas about how the empire should be organized (Vaughan, 2019, p. 8). The demand to reduce taxes at home went hand in hand with the decision to impose taxes on the colonies (Vaughan, 2019, pp. 12, 13).…”

Section: Empire: Colonial States and The Mother Statementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Using autocratic methods to collect taxes in the colonies reduced the British state's dependence on parliament at home. Thus, creating an autocratic system in the colonies had implications for Britain's own representative system (Vaughan, 2019, pp. 12, 13).…”

Section: Empire: Colonial States and The Mother Statementioning

confidence: 99%

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John Brewer's argument that eighteenth‐century Britain developed a centralized and effective fiscal‐military state that allowed it to become a great power has been instrumental in making early modern state‐building an important field of inquiry for historians. New directions in the field explore conflicting eighteenth‐century ideologies, the notion of a ‘naval‐military’ state, the non‐military dimensions of the state, the nature of the Irish and Scottish fiscal‐military states, the relationship between Britain's central state and colonial states, and the relationship between the state and the informal actors who served it.

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Section: Eighteenth‐century Politics: Ideologies In Conflictmentioning

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Section: Empire: Colonial States and The Mother Statementioning

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