Title The British Navy and the state in the eighteenth century / Clive Wilkinson

Published Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : Boydell Press in association with the National Maritime Museum ; Rochester, NY : Boydell & Brewer, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (x, 246 pages) Contents FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; The myth of a paper fleet; Government and the Navy; 'Treating the House with contempt' British naval finance in the eighteenth century; Crisis and victory: The Navy, 1714-62; The peace establishment I: Demobilization and retrenchment, 1763-6; The peace establishment II: Stability, innovation, and the Falklands, 1766-70; Sandwich, Parliament and the paper fleet, 1771-9; Conclusion; APPENDICES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX Summary The Navy in the eighteenth century, though successful, was costly. Its funding and maintenance made those responsible for it politically vulnerable Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-239) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Great Britain. Royal Navy -- History -- 18th century SUBJECT Great Britain. Royal Navy fast Subject HISTORY -- Military -- Naval. HISTORY -- Modern -- 18th Century. Politics and government SUBJECT Great Britain -- History, Naval -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056846 Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056900 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form History Naval history Form Electronic book Author National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) ISBN 9781846152269 1846152267 1281949574 9781281949578 9786611949570 6611949577

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