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1 online resource (496 pages)
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1st ed.
ISBN:
9781107013513
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9781139375764
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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
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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 in Eurasia from a global, comparative and transnational 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 Europe -- 2: 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 goods -- Provincial 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)
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5: The politics of British taxation, from the Glorious Revolution to the Great War -- Taxation: 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, 1650-1848 -- Administrative 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 -- The fiscal roots of world power -- The first world system: a pioneer mercantile state -- The second world system: the first step towards a fiscal state -- The second step towards a fiscal state -- 10: Spain: from composite monarchy to nation-state, 1492-1914. An exceptional case? -- Introduction -- Castile and the Habsburg composite monarchy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- The negative side of the Castilian fiscal state -- The fiscal system of a Spanish absolutist proto-nation-state in the eighteenth century -- The long and difficult transition to the liberal fiscal system, 1808-1845
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The consolidation of the liberal regime and the nation-state fiscal system, 1845-1898 -- Public debt: the chronic problem of the liberal state -- General reflections on the long term: the mirror of France and England -- 11: Republics and principalities in Italy -- The fiscal geography -- Central and local powers -- The emergence of direct taxation -- Republican and princely debts -- 12: The formation of fiscal states in Italy: the Papal States -- Control of Rome -- Administrative networks -- A long-term perspective -- Budgets -- The debt -- The fiscal system -- Direct versus indirect taxation -- Town customs -- The new customs system at the borders -- Fiscal burdens -- 13: The evolution of fiscal institutions in the Ottoman Empire, 1500-1914 -- Introduction -- Money and credit -- Rise of a centralized state, 1450-1580 -- State economic policies -- Tax collection and internal borrowing during decentralization, 1580-1780 -- Second wave of fiscal centralization at the dawn of the modern era, 1780-1850 -- External borrowing, 1850-1914 -- Conclusion -- Part IV: Asia -- 14: The continuation and efficiency of the Chinese fiscal state, 700 BC - AD 1911 -- Factual background: how a fiscal state emerged -- The nature of the Chinese imperial fiscal state (until 1840) -- Readjustments of the system (until 1840) -- Mutation of the fiscal approach -- Final remarks -- 15: Taxation and good governance in China, 1500-1914 -- Sixteenth-century patterns of resource mobilization and movement -- The bureaucratic structure, the collection of taxes and their use in the eighteenth century -- The social and economic implications of official-elite relations -- Extraordinary fiscal operations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Fiscal expansion and state transformations, 1850-1914 -- 16: The rise of a Japanese fiscal state -- Introduction and context
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The early modern fiscal state, 1192-1867 -- From ancient empire to feudal state -- Land and tax reforms from the 1590s to the 1600s -- Public finance in Tokugawa Japan -- The Meiji Restoration: 1868-1889 -- Abolition of the feudal system and fiscal centralization -- Land tax reform in the 1870s -- Government bonds in the domestic capital market -- Japan's fiscal state under the new constitution: 1890-1914 -- Battles in the diet -- Rising taxation with increasing capital formation -- Government borrowing on the international capital market -- Conclusions -- 17: Fiscal states in Mughal and British India -- Mughal finance -- East India Company finance -- Conclusion -- 18: 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
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Print version Yun-Casalilla, Bartolomé The Rise of Fiscal States Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,c2012 ISBN 9781107013513
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