Boone Ayala’s Reviews > The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688–1783 > Status Update

‘The Révolution of 1688 thwarted James but it did not stop the expansion of the central government. On the contrary, it was responsible for raising its pace. The Glorious Revolution embroiled England in the struggle with Louis XIV and inaugurated a quarter of a century of war with France. There was no more powerful stimulus to administrative growth.’ (65)