Fiscal-military state

In British history the concept was popularised by John Brewer’s study of eighteenth-century Britain as a “fiscal-military” polity. Earlier eighteenth-century narratives already compiled fiscal and military data; for example, James Ralph’s The History of England, During the Reigns of King William, Queen Anne, and King George I (1744–46) appended customs and excise series, national-debt tables, and army/militia returns. ==See also==