cam a22 4500 551362081 CHVBK 20201114033516.0 m d cr |n |||||||| 141027t20152015enk sb 001 0 eng d 2014955226 978-0-19-873878-7 0-19-873878-1 (SERSOL)ssj0001560713 (WaSeSS)ssj0001560713 BTCTA eng BTCTA BDX YDXCP OCLCO EQO OCLCF STF GZM ZWZ MUU OCLCO JHE VMI OCL OCLCO UPM OCL XFF DLC WaSeSS rda DA480 .G69 2015 941.069 23 Graham Aaron 1984- author Corruption, party, and government in Britain, 1702-1713 Aaron Graham First edition. Oxford, United Kingdom Oxford University Press 2015 ©2015 1 online resource (xiv, 305 pages) text txt rdacontent/eng computer c rdamedia/eng online resource cr rdacarrier/eng Oxford historical monographs Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-287) and index. Machine generated contents note: 1.The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660 -- 1830 -- 2.Public Finance and the Pay Office, 1660 -- 1830 -- 3.The Pay Office Under Charles Fox, 1702 -- 5 -- 4.The Pay Office in Northern Europe, 1705 -- 10 -- 5.The Pay Office in Southern Europe, 1705 -- 10 -- 6.James Brydges and the Pay Office, 1710 -- 14 -- 7.A Partisan-Political State, 1660 -- 1830? Lizenzbedingungen können den Zugang einschränken. License restrictions may limit access. [This book] offers an innovative and original reinterpretation of state formation in eighteenth-century Britain, reconceptualizing it as a political and fundamentally partisan process. Focussing on the supply of funds to the army during the War of the Spanish Succession (1702-1713), it demonstrates that public officials faced multiple incompatible demands, but that political partisanship helped to prioritize them, and to hammer out settlements that embodied a version of the national interest. These decisions were then transmitted to agents overseas through a mixture of personal incentives and partisan loyalties which built trust and turned these networks into instruments of public policy. However, the process of building trust and supplying funds laid officials and agents open to accusations of embezzlement, fraud, and financial misappropriation. In particular, although successive financial officials ran entrepreneurial private financial ventures that enabled the army overseas to avoid dangerous financial shortfalls, they found it necessary to cover the costs and risks by receiving illegal 'gratifications' from the regiments. Reconstructing these transactions in detail, [this book] demonstrates that these corrupt payments advanced the public service, and thus that 'corruption' was as much a dispute over ends as means. Ultimately, this volume demonstrates that state formation in eighteenth-century Britain was a contested process of interest aggregation, in which common partisan aims helped to negotiate compromises between various irreconcilable public priorities and private interests, within the frameworks provided by formal institutions, which were then collaboratively imposed through overlapping and intersecting networks of formal and informal agents. -- Back cover jacket. 1689-1799 fast State, The History 18th century Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741 fast State, The (OCoLC)fst01131943 fast Great Britain Politics and government 1702-1714 Great Britain History 1689-1714 Great Britain (OCoLC)fst01204623 fast Grande-Bretagne Politique et gouvernement 1702-1714 ram History fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738787.001.0001/acprof-9780198738787 Uni Basel: Volltext https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738787.001.0001/acprof-9780198738787 Uni Basel: Volltext https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738787.001.0001/acprof-9780198738787 Uni Bern: Volltext BK020053 XK020053 XK020000 University Press Scholarship Online History Collection Oxford Scholarship Online History E-Books von 360MarcUpdates Oxford Scholarship Online IDSBB A145 A145 145VT IDSBB A145 A145 145VT IDSBB B405 B405 405VT NELB4052004 IDSBB 100 1- Graham Aaron 1984- author IDSBB 490 1- Oxford historical monographs IDSBB 856 40 https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738787.001.0001/acprof-9780198738787 Uni Basel: Volltext IDSBB 856 40 https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738787.001.0001/acprof-9780198738787 Uni Basel: Volltext IDSBB 856 40 https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738787.001.0001/acprof-9780198738787 Uni Bern: Volltext SWISSBIB 408489138