Polity Atlas
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The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688–1783

John Brewer · Unwin Hyman · 1989

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John Brewer
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2026-09-01
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Also published by Harvard University Press (ISBN 0674809300).

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TheoryTilly argued that early modern European rulers built states as a by-product of war making, state making, protection and extraction, likening them to racketeers selling protection, and that resistance to extraction produced bargains with subject populations.