Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vi
4. Tables viii
5. Acknowledgements ix
6. 1 Introduction: War and the Contractor State 1
7. 2 The Victualling Board and its Contractors 19
8. 3 The Global Strategic Task 46
9. 4 The Market for Provisions at Home and Abroad 67
10. 5 Supply Contracts: ‘Men of Confined Property’ and ‘The Flower of the City’ 85
11. 6 Commission Agents: ‘Persons of Reputation, Integrity and Extensive Commercial Connexions’ 115
12. 7 Sea Provisions Contracts: Extending the Imperial Reach 132
13. 8 Basil Cochrane and the Victualling of the Fleet in the East Indies, 1792–1806 155
14. 9 Zephaniah Job: Merchant, Smuggler, Banker and Contractor 177
15. 10 Samuel Paget and the Sea Provisions Contract at Great Yarmouth, 1796–1802 192
16. 11 Conclusion 210
17. Appendices
18. 1a Structure of naval administration 1793–1815 215
19. 2 Annual naval spending 1793–1816 217
20. 3a Map of Britain showing victualling yards and ports victualled by contract 218
21. 4a Deployments of ships and men, 1792–1802 220
22. 5 Army numbers abroad, 1793–1814 223
23. 6a Wheat prices in four counties, monthly, 1791–1801 224
24. Bibliography 227
25. Index 243