Bannerman, G. E. (2010) The "Nabob of the North": Sir Lawrence Dundas as government contractor. Historical Research, 83 (219). pp. 102-123. ISSN 0950-3471
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This article examines the career of the military contractor and businessman Sir Lawrence Dundas (1710–81). In a controversial career, Dundas achieved notoriety for the fortune that he acquired from government contracts. In historiographical terms, the identification of contracts with patronage and jobbery, by contemporary and modern observers, has obscured the importance of contractors to the British army. In detailing Dundas's activities, largely from official source material, this article argues that the organizational capacity, logistical expertise and management skills of Dundas, and many other contractors, were a vital co-ordinating element within, and component of, the power of the ‘fiscal-military state’.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(IS... |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 The Institute of Historical Research (IHR) |
| Divisions: | Government |
| Subjects: | C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CT Biography D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Apr 2011 14:58 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 23:46 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/35299 |
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