“I Carry a Serpent in My Bosom, Which Devours Me”: Finance, Morality and the Public Service in the Nine Years War, 1688–1697

Aaron Graham
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Chapter Chapter 3 in The War Within, 2018, pp 45-69 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Corruption; Morality; Public service; Warfare; Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-98050-8_3

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