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The rise of fiscal states : a global history, 1500-1914

Yun Casalilla, Bartolomâe, O'Brien, Patrick Karl

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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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Fiscal policy History. / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.
• ISBN: 9781107013513, 1107013518

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HJ192.5.R567 2012	1	BOOK	BUSINESS