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A reference work that provides lists and statistics on ministries, ministerial salaries, size of cabinets and governments, office holders, composition of parties, electoral victories and defeats, powers of parliamentary committees, budgets, political scandals, civil disturbances, criminal activities and convictions, royal commission, birth and death rates, immigration, housing, trade union membership, industrial disputes, and numerous other bits of information about politics, society, and the economy in Britain. The authors have attempted to provide the same information (where available) for every year. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Now in its eighth edition, and thirty-seven years after its first printing, this book is still unmatched as a source of information and fascination...
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Stephen Judy
reviewed 20th Century British Political Facts on April 30, 2020 20th Century British Political Facts
A good book, in which Glete first lays down the theoretical framework of his views on early modern state building: that fiscal-military states are complex organizations created by innovative rulers and they were possible because the state more and more became the most efficient protection seller within a country. Then, he examines Spain, Dutch Republic and Sweden's state building efforts according to this theory.
His ideas generally make sense and are well written, but they don't go much further than debunking myths about absolutism and explaining the steps of early modern state building. Glete doesn't really explain why most other European countries created fiscal-military organizations later than the three countries he examines. Was it because their rulers were not innovative or skilled enough? Why did Castille and Sweden succeed in curtailing their estates and setting up permanent taxation and large professional armies, while France, England or Austria couldn't (until much later)? These are relevant questions which were poorly, if at all addressed by Glete. Additionally, repetition of his theoretical formulations (like the one I summarized in the first paragraph) again and again makes the book more boring and monotonous than it could have been.
What Glete handled perfectly is the short summaries and analyses of histiography in both theoretical and case-study chapters. These really put his study in the proper context, and is very important for especially beginners in the field (like me) so that they don't take Glete's book as objective historical truth, but as a possible explanation of how (but sadly, not why) European fiscal-military states came about.
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