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.
Author(s): Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla, Patrick K. O'Brien, Francisco Comín Comín
Edition: 1
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2012
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF / TOC
Pages: 493
Tags: Fiscal Policy: History
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
