The Rise of Fiscal States : A Global History, 1500-1914

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Cover; The Rise of Fiscal States; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1: Introduction: the rise of the fiscal state inEurasia from a global, comparative andtransnational perspective; Introduction; War and international trade as forces in fiscal history: a global and long-run perspective; Some suggestions on the formation of the fiscal state from a comparative perspective; Fiscal states in a transnational and geopolitical perspective: some paths for research; New ideas and old paradigms: D. North and J. Schumpeter in Eurasian perspective

Part I: North Atlantic Europe2: Long-term trends in the fiscal history of the Netherlands, 1515-1913; Introduction; War and state formation in the Netherlands: six periods; The fiscal institutions of the early modern Netherlands; The burden of debt; Tax burden, tax base and tax structure; The effects of fiscal policy; Conclusion; 3: Taxation in the Habsburg Low Countries and Belgium, 1579-1914; Political autonomy under Spanish and Austrian imperial rule (seventeenth-eighteenth centuries); Fiscal autonomy; Political representation; Fiscal revenues: the data; The composition of taxation

Public goodsProvincial tax burdens; An industrial and liberal nation (nineteenth century)26; Fiscal evolution; Wealth; Income; Consumption; The political issues; 4: The rise of the fiscal state in France, 1500-1914; The expansion of the sale of offices in the sixteenth century; War finance and monetary devaluation under Louis XIII and Louis XIV; The collapse of Law's System and its aftermath: relative monetary and fiscal stability; The French Revolution and state bankruptcy; The 'long nineteenth century' (1801/15-1914)

5: The politics of British taxation, from the Glorious Revolution to the Great WarTaxation: legitimacy versus resentment; Borrowing: credible commitment versus default; War finance: acceptance versus exploitation; Losing and regaining legitimacy; Conclusion; Part II: Central and Eastern Europe; 6: Finances and power in the German state system; Municipal finances; Territorial finances; Imperial finances; Brandenburg-Prussian fiscal absolutism; Systems of state finance and per-capita tax burdens; Nineteenth-century German fiscal unification

7: Financing an empire: the Austrian composite monarchy, 1650-1848Administrative structures and general financial development; Income structure; Expenditures; Economic impact of the imperial budget; 8: The Russian fiscal state, 1600-1914; Introduction; Imperial rule, territorial aggrandisement and financial administration; The state budget and fiscal reform; Budget deficits and the state debt; Taxation and industrialization; Concluding remarks; Part III: South Atlantic Europe and the Mediterranean; 9: From pioneer mercantile state to ordinary fiscal state: Portugal, 1498-1914; Introduction

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