Rise of Fiscal States : A Global History, 1500#x2013;1914
ISBN: 9781107013513 | 1107013518
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 3/31/2012
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This groundbreaking volume confronts the complexities of the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia between 1500 and 1914. In a series of country case studies, leading economic historians reveal that distinctive features of the fiscal state appeared at different times as a result of independent but often interacting stimuli.
Leading economic historians present a groundbreaking series of country case studies exploring the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia.
From the Netherlands to the... MORE
Leading economic historians present a groundbreaking series of country case studies exploring the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia.
From the Netherlands to the... MORE
| Introduction: the rise of the fiscal state in Eurasia from a global, comparative and transnational perspective | |
| North Atlantic Europe | |
| Long-term trends in the fiscal history of the Netherlands, 1515-1913 | |
| Taxation in the Habsburg Low Countries and Belgium, 1579-1914 | |
| The rise of the fiscal state in France, 1500-1914 | |
| The politics of British taxation, from the Glorious Revolution to the Great War | ... MORE |
| Central and Eastern Europe | |
| Finances and power in the German state system | |
| Financing an empire: the Austrian composite monarchy, 1650-1848 | |
| The Russian fiscal state, 1600-1914 | |
| South Atlantic Europe and the Mediterranean | |
| From pioneer mercantile state to ordinary fiscal state: Portugal, 1498-1914 | |
| Spain: from composite monarchy to nation state, 1492-1914. An exceptional case? | |
| Republics and principalities in Italy | |
| The formation of fiscal states in Italy: the Papal States | |
| The evolution of fiscal institutions in the Ottoman empire, 1500-1914 | |
| Asia | |
| Continuation and efficiency of the Chinese fiscal state, 700 BC-1911 AD | |
| Taxation and good governance in China, 1500-1914 | |
| The rise of a Japanese fiscal state | |
| Fiscal states in Mughal and British India | |
| Afterword: reflexions on fiscal foundations and contexts for the formation of economically effective Eurasian states from the rise of Venice to the Opium War | |
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