Format:
XXII, 471 S.
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Ill.
ISBN:
9781139004237
Content:
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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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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1. Introduction: the rise of the fiscal state in Eurasia from a global, comparative and transnational perspective
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Part I. North Atlantic Europe: 2. Long-term trends in the fiscal history of the Netherlands, 1515-1913
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Part II. Central and Eastern Europe: 6. Finances and power in the German state system
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Part III. South Atlantic Europe and the Mediterranean: 9. From pioneer mercantile state to ordinary fiscal state: Portugal, 1498-1914
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Part IV. Asia: 14. Continuation and efficiency of the Chinese fiscal state, 700 BC-1911 AD
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107013513
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107521278
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107013513
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139004237
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