Graham, Aaron;
(2018)
“I Carry a Serpent in My Bosom, Which Devours Me”: Finance, Morality and the Public Service in the Nine Years War, 1688–1697.
In: Félix, Joël and Dubet, Anne, (eds.)
The War Within: Private Interests and the Fiscal State in Early-Modern Europe.
(pp. 45-69).
Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, Switzerland.
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Abstract
Finance and morality were closely connected in the early modern world, but the growing demands of public service also posed new and contradictory demands. During the Nine Years War in the 1690s, British military officials found themselves caught between these dilemmas, as the problems of keeping the army in the field forced them to lie, cheat and deceive lenders in order to maintain the flow of money. The shifting nature of finance, warfare, politics and the state at the end of the seventeenth century therefore posed new and urgent moral problems for those involved.
| Type: | Book chapter |
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| Title: | “I Carry a Serpent in My Bosom, Which Devours Me”: Finance, Morality and the Public Service in the Nine Years War, 1688–1697 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-3-319-98049-2 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-98050-8_3 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98050-8_3 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Corruption; Morality; Public service; Warfare; Finance |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of History |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10041036 |
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