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Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire
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The Scottish Revolution
The 16 forties changed the way in which people thought about government, and what government was for. I saw it as a period in which state formation was accelerated. The covenanters were able to mobilize the resources of a relatively poor society in wayst wouldve been almost thinkableto james the sixth, the first and even charles the first ad. And that legacy is an important one in fiscal terms.
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