| ID: | 24941 |
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| Entry Text: | Wilkinson, Clive. The British Navy and the State in the Eighteenth Century. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2004, x, 246 pp. Important contribution; "fiscal-military state"; financing the RN, 1740s-1780s; what traditional historians described as "corruption," Wilkins saw as effectiveness & flexible management; credit to Lord Sandwich. |