Titlebook: Elites, Enterprise and the Making of the British Overseas Empire1688-1775; H. V. Bowen Book 1996 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmill

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Book 1996ows the empire to be seen not as a series of discrete, unconnected geographical regions scattered across the world, but as a commercial, cultural, and social body with its roots very firmly planted in metropolitan society.

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Reibkupplungen und Reibbremsen,h needed support from, and defence by, the state. As such, this had significant implications for the way in which Britain organized herself as an imperial power, and it played its part in shaping the contours of the modern state created after 1688.

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Book 1996s placed in a broad historiographical context informed by important recent work on the ‘fiscal-military state‘, and ‘gentlemanly capitalism‘. This allows the empire to be seen not as a series of discrete, unconnected geographical regions scattered across the world, but as a commercial, cultural, and

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Gentlemen and Entrepreneurs: Landowners, Merchants and Bankersnts of several different elites. These powerful groups, both at home and abroad, held the levers that served to regulate and determine the form and direction taken by British activity in the wider world. Within metropolitan society, a political elite dominated by the landowning classes defined the f

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Investment in Empiree number of the British elite were drawn to economic activity based in the nation’s overseas territorial possessions. While this acted as a dynamic for further imperial expansion, it also helped to strengthen imperial ties by entangling Britons in a global network of commitments and obligations whic