The Rise Of Fiscal States: A Global History, 1500–1914

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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. Cover Title Title - Full Copyright Dedication Contents Figures Tables Contributors Acknowledgements 1 - Introduction Part I - North Atlantic Europe 2 - Long-term trends in the i scal history of the Netherlands, 1515–1913 3 - Taxation in the Habsburg Low Countries and Belgium, 1579–1914 4 - The rise of the fiscal state in France, 1500–1914 5 - The politics of British taxation, from the Glorious Revolution to the Great War Part II - Central and Eastern Europe 6 - Finances and power in the German state system 7 - Financing an empire 8 - The Russian fiscal state, 1600–1914 Part III - South Atlantic Europe and the Mediterranean 9 - From pioneer mercantile state to ordinary fiscal state 10 - Spain 11 - Republics and principalities in Italy 12 - The formation of fiscal states in Italy 13 - The evolution of fiscal institutions in the Ottoman Empire, 1500–1914 Part IV - Asia 14 - The continuation and efficiency of the Chinese fiscal state, 700 bc – ad 1911 15 - Taxation and good governance in China, 1500–1914 16 - The rise of a Japanese fiscal state 17 - Fiscal states in Mughal and British India 18 - Afterword Index