| Physical description |
xxi, 652 pages : charts ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Origins of the modern state in Europe. |
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Origins of the modern state in Europe.
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| Notes |
"European Science Foundation." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-628) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Richard Bonney -- 1. Medieval and Renaissance Theories of State Finance / Eberhard Isenmann -- 2. The Feudal Structure and the Beginnings of State Finance / W. M. Ormrod and Janos Barta -- 3. City-State and Market Economy / Jean-Claude Hocquet -- 4. Kingdoms on the Periphery of Europe: The Case of Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavia / Bjorn Poulsen -- 5. The West European Monarchies in the Later Middle Ages / W. M. Ormrod -- 6. Early Modern Theories of State Finance / Richard Bonney -- 7. The Spanish System: Centre and Periphery / Giovanni Muto -- 8. The Emergence and Consolidation of the 'Tax State'. I. The Sixteenth Century / Winfried Schulze -- 9. The Emergence and Consolidation of the 'Tax State'. II. The Seventeenth Century / Marjolein 't Hart -- 10. The Eighteenth Century. I. The Finances of the Austrian Monarchy and the Italian States / Carlo Capra. |
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11. The Eighteenth Century. II. The Struggle for Great Power Status and the End of the Old Fiscal Regime / Richard Bonney -- 12. Expenditure / Martin Korner -- 13. Revenues / Richard Bonney -- 14. Public Credit / Martin Korner -- 15. The Fiscal Burden / Juan Gelabert -- Appendix: The European State Finance Database and the Graphical Presentation of Data / Richard Bonney -- Index / Richard Bonney. |
| Summary |
This is the first volume to appear in the Origins of the Modern State in Europe series, which arises from an important international research program sponsored by the European Science Foundation. The aim of the series, which comprises seven volumes, is to bring together specialists from different countries, who reinterpret from a comparative European perspective different aspects of the formation of the state over the long period from the beginning of the thirteenth to the end of the eighteenth century. One of the main achievements of the research program has been to overcome the long-established historiographical tendency to regard states mainly from the viewpoint of their twentieth-century borders. Economic Systems and State Finance offers a new approach to the development of state finance and fiscal systems in Europe. It covers a broad chronological span, beginning with a reassessment of the feudal system and the beginnings of state finance, and continuing with developments within a comparative European framework as far as 1815 when Britain emerged as the only state to have achieved economic hegemony. The conclusions are presented in four thematic chapters on expenditure, revenues, public credit, and the fiscal burden. The text is underpinned by the comprehensive apparatus of 97 figures, drawn from an important research database established during the research program. This book is a significant work of scholarship, which will make a permanent contribution to historical debate. |
| Other author |
Bonney, Richard.
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European Science Foundation.
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| Subject |
Finance, Public -- Europe -- History.
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Taxation -- Europe -- History.
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Comparative economics.
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Economic history.
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Europe -- Economic policy.
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| ISBN |
0198205457 |
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