War, power and the economy : mercantilism and state formation in 18th century Europe

1. Changing strategies and global power in the long eighteenth century -- 2. Eighteenth-century realities and historiographical approaches -- 3. Administering the fiscal-military state : ordinary revenues : trusting in a consumers world -- 4. Increasing revenue through administration change : direct administration of taxes -- 5. Growing needs : the cost of war and extraordinary revenue -- 6. Foreseeing difficulties and administering for the future : the public debt -- 7. The administration of income : spending and the contractor state -- 8. Shipbuilding, the navy and the contractor state -- 9. Arms provisioning and the contractor state.