Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 283 Seiten).
ISBN:
978-981-10-1605-9
Series Statement:
Studies in economic history
Note:
Foreword; Preface; Warfare and State Formation; Total War and Conflicts; References; Contents; Contributors; Editors; Authors; Part I Wars and State Formation in the Short and Long Run; Paths to Inclusive Political Institutions; Introduction; The Basin of Attraction; The Emergence of the Athenian Polis; State and Society in Early Modern England; The Symbiotic Relationship between State and Society; Outside the Basin of Attraction; The Tiv; Leviathans; A Paper Leviathan: Colombia; A Despotic Leviathan: Rwanda; The Academic Literature; Conclusion; References
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States and Development: Early Modern India, China, and the Great DivergenceProperty Rights: A Comparative History Perspective; Property Rights: Mughal and Post-Mughal India; Property Rights: China; State Capacity: The European and World History Perspective; State Capacity: The Indian Evidence; State Capacity: The Evidence on China; Warfare and State Capacity: An India-China Comparison; Conclusion; References; Part II Political Economy of Democracies and Dictatorships; Decentralization, Fiscal Structure, and Local State Capacity in Late-Imperial Russia
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State Capacity in Imperial Russia: An OverviewInstitutions of Peasant Self-Government; The Zemstvo; Local Corporate and Municipal Governance; Central State Capacity at the Local Level; Further Perspectives on Local State Capacity in Tsarist Russia; Comparative and Conceptual Dimensions; Concluding Thoughts; Archival and Published Primary Sources; References; Historicizing Divergence: A Comparative Analysis of the Revolutionary Crises in Russia and Finland; Introduction; Working Class Revolutions?; What Was Different?; The Military-Civilian Alliance in Russia
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The Military-Civilian Alliance in FinlandThe Urban-Rural Alliance in Russia; The Urban-Rural Alliance in Finland; Discussion and Conclusions; References; Repressions and Punishment Under Stalin: Evidence from the Soviet Archives; Introduction; Related Literature; Repressions at the Chief Administration of Metallurgy in 1937; Plan Fulfilment and Penalties in the Soviet Union After the Second World War; Conclusion; Archival and Published Primary Sources; References; Part III Economic History of the World Wars; Myths of the Great War; Introduction; Myth #1. How the War Began
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Myth #2. Needless SlaughterMyth #3. The Food Weapon; Myth #4. Folly at Versailles; Concluding Remarks; References; War and Inflation in the United States from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf War; Money Creation as a Means of War Finance; From the Revolution to the Civil War; The Revolution; War of 1812; The Mexican War; The Civil War; The World Wars; World War I; World War II; The Postwar Era; Korean War; Vietnam War; Conclusions; Appendices; Appendix 1: The Means of Finance for America's Wars; Appendix 2: A Catalog of Some of the Currency That Helped Finance America's Wars; References
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-981-10-1604-2
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Political Science
Keywords:
Staat
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Entstehung
;
Diktatur
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Ökonomische Theorie der Demokratie
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Kriegswirtschaft
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Wirtschaft
DOI:
10.1007/978-981-10-1605-9
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