The triumph and denouement of the British fiscal state: Taxation for the wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1793-1815

The Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Essays in honour of P.G.M. Dickson

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 167-200

  O'Brien, Patrick Karl ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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