The Rise of Fiscal States: A global history, 1500-1914
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Cambridge ; New York, Cambridge University Press, 2012
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YUN-CASALILLA, Bartolome, O’BRIEN, Patrick K., COMÍN COMÍN, Francisco (editor/s), The Rise of Fiscal States: A global history, 1500-1914, Cambridge ; New York, Cambridge University Press, 2012 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/22414
Abstract
From the Netherlands to the Ottoman Empire, to Japan and India, this groundbreaking volume confronts the complex and diverse problem of the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia between 1500 and 1914. This series of country case studies from leading economic historians reveals that distinctive features of the fiscal state appeared across the region at different moments in time as a result of multiple independent but often interacting stimuli such as internal competition over resources, European expansion, international trade, globalisation and war. The essays offer a comparative framework for re-examining the causes of economic development across this period and show, for instance, the central role that the more effective fiscal systems of Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries played in the divergence of east and west as well as the very different paths to modernisation taken across the world.
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--List of figures page x
--List of tables xii
--Notes on contributors xv
--Acknowledgements xx
--Introduction: The rise of the fiscal state in Eurasia from a global, comparative and transnational perspective, Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla
--Part I North Atlantic Europe
--Part II Central and Eastern Europe
--Part III South Atlantic Europe and the Mediterranean
--Part IV Asia
--Afterword: Reflections on fiscal foundations and contexts for the formation of economically effective Eurasian states from the rise of Venice to the Opium War
--Index