Merchants and the Military in Eighteenth-Century Britain:
British Army Contracts and Domestic Supply, 1739–1763
Gordon E Bannerman
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Bannerman investigates the contract sector of the British Army during the eighteenth century. He argues that this group of financiers, private merchants, businessmen and farmers represented a vital interest group which was at the nexus of the fiscal-military state. The expertise of contractors in remittances, victualling, and domestic military supply was important in a period when armies were becoming larger, and military operations extended to distant regions of the globe. These public-private partnerships became a defining characteristic of the eighteenth-century state.
This monograph is based on extensive primary research. Bannerman draws on papers from the War Office, the Treasury and the Audit Office in the National Archives, as well as documents from private archives across the UK.
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Readership
sMilitary History, War Studies, British Studies, Political and Economic History
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Supply System of the British Army from the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 2: The Growth of Army Contracting
Chapter 3: Procedures and Patronage
Chapter 4: Administration of Encampment Contracts in England, 1740–62
Chapter 5: Performance of Encampment Contracts
Chapter 6: A Domestic Contractor: John Willan
Chapter 7: Domestic supply and Contracting in Scotland, 1746–62
Chapter 8: Profit and Wealth
Conclusion
Appendix A: Sample of Army Contractors in Britain
Appendix B: The Legacy
Appendix C: The Business Life of Contractors
Appendix D: Property Holding
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