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Author:

González Enciso, Agustín, author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80029364

Title:

War, power and the economy : mercantilism and state formation in 18th-century Europe / A. González Enciso.

Edition:

1 Edition.

Publisher:

RoutledgeTaylor & Francis Group,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xvi, 284 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Europe--Economic conditions--18th century.
Europe--History--History--18th century.
Taxation--Europe--History--18th century.
Europe--History, Military--18th century.
Commercial policy.
Economic history.
Taxation.
Europe.
1700-1799
History.
Military history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-277) and index.

Contents:

Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Changing strategies and global power in the long eighteenth century -- Eighteenth-century realities and historiographical approaches -- Administering the fiscal-military state : ordinary revenues : trusting in a consumers world -- Increasing revenue through administration change : direct administration of taxes -- Growing needs : the cost of war and extraordinary revenue -- Foreseeing difficulties and administering for the future : the public debt -- The administration of income : spending and the contractor state -- Shipbuilding, the navy and the contractor state -- Arms provisioning and the contractor state -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.

Series:

Routledge explorations in economic history ; 8

ISBN:

1138855693
9781138855694

OCLC:

(OCoLC)950445440

LCCN:

2016020602

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)