An Imperial State at War

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An Imperial State at War is written by Lawrence Stone and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1134546025 (ISBN 10) and 9781134546022 (ISBN 13).

The study of eighteenth century history has been transformed by the writings of John Brewer, and most recently, with The Sinews of Power, he challenged the central concepts of British history. Brewer argues that the power of the British state increased dramatically when it was forced to pay the costs of war in defence of her growing empire. In An Imperial State at War, edited by Lawrence Stone (himself no stranger to controversy), the leading historians of the eighteenth century put the Brewer thesis under the spotlight. Like the Sinews of Power itself, this is a major advance in the study of Britain's first empire.