The Sinews of Power (1990)

John Brewer

Year:	1990
Authors:	John Brewer
Publishers:	Harvard University Press
Pages:	316
Print type:	BOOK

Description:

John Brewer provides a new framework for understanding Britain's emergence in the eighteenth century as a major international power. Warfare and taxes reshaped the English economy, but at the heart of these dramatic changes lay a tension between the nation's aspirations to be a major power and fear of the domestic consequences: the loss of liberty.