An Imperial State at War
Subtitle: Britain From 1689 to 1815
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 28, 1993
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780415061421
First sentence: One may well ask why it is only in the 1980s and early 1990s that the emergence of the modern state out of the crucible of prolonged European warfare on an unprecedented scale has become once more a growing focus of historical attention.