The purpose of the essay is twofold: a) explore the ability of S. Huntington's model of political development for societies in process of modernization to explain the Argentine political history in 1880-1955; b) prove the hypothesis that mass pretorianism is inherently unstable. We conclude the...

Der Umfang finanzieller Ressourcen ist für den Handlungsspielraum politischer Akteure konstitutiv, was auch für Bern im 16. Jahrhundert gilt. Orientiert an modernen finanzwissenschaftlichen Vorgaben wird in dieser Arbeit Struktur und Umfang des Berner Staatshaus-haltes analysiert und zwar so,...

"Le ministère de l'Économie et des Finances est l'un des plus puissants de la République, mais aussi l'un des plus secrets. Pendant deux ans, les auteurs ont exploré les quarante-deux kilomètres de couloirs de cette forteresse. Ils ont recueilli les confidences de ministres, anciens...

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- Gerald D. Feldman : an appreciation / Jeffrey Fear, Glasgow University -- Starting from scratch? : the beginnings of Banca Commerciale Italiana 1893-1894 / Peter Hertner, Marthin Luther University Halle Wittenberg -- Jewish financiers in...

Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Changing strategies and global power in the long eighteenth century -- Eighteenth-century realities and historiographical approaches -- Administering the fiscal-military state : ordinary revenues : trusting in a consumers world -- Increasing...

The Argument -- Part I -- Rich Rome, Poor State -- The Use and Abuse of Tax Farming -- Profiteering in the Provinces -- Part II -- The Power of Taxpayers in the First Punic War -- The Plight of Taxpayers in the Second Punic War -- The Death and Taxes of the Gracchi -- Conclusions

"How did England, once a minor regional power, become a global hegemon between 1689 and 1815? Why, over the same period, did she become the world's first industrial nation? Gary W. Cox addresses these questions in Marketing Sovereign Promises. The book examines two central issues: the origins of...

"Little is known of Antonio Serra except that he wrote his extraordinary 1613 Short Treatise on the Causes that Make Kingdoms Abound in Gold and Silver even in the Absence of Mines in a Neapolitan jail, and that he died there soon afterwards. However the contribution this work made represents a...

The extent of fiscal transparency in Western Europe has varied over the centuries. Although ancient Greek, Roman, and medieval governments were sometimes open about their finances, the absolute monarchies of the 1600s and 1700s shrouded them in mystery. Factorsthat have encouraged transparency...