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Educational TalkEducational TalkWars didn't just redraw maps: they built the modern state. This talk traces how centuries of conflict forged Britain's bureaucracy from patronage to professionalism, using a remarkable dataset of every central government employee from 1660 to 1870.
History lecture
Political science
Stanford event
Brown bag seminar
Tips
đź“Šdataset of every British gov employee 1660-1870
🎓published in American Political Science Review
🍽️bring your own lunch
War, Politics, and the Birth of Modern Bureaucracy
Stanford
Educational TalkEducational TalkWars didn't just redraw maps: they built the modern state. This talk traces how centuries of conflict forged Britain's bureaucracy from patronage to professionalism, using a remarkable dataset of every central government employee from 1660 to 1870.
History lecture
Political science
Stanford event
Brown bag seminar
Tips
đź“Šdataset of every British gov employee 1660-1870
🎓published in American Political Science Review
🍽️bring your own lunch
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