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War and the State in Early Modern Europe Spain, the Dutch Republic and Sweden as Fiscal-Military States
By Jan Glete
Copyright 2002
286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
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The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw many ambitious European rulers develop permanent armies and navies. War and the State in Early Modern Europe examines this military change as a central part of the political, social and economic transformation of early modern Europe. This important study exposes the economic structures necessary for supporting permanent military organisations across... Read more
Preface, Prologue, 1. The rise of the fiscal-military state, 1500-1700, 2. Explaining the fiscal-military state, 3. The Spanish monarchy: the first fiscal-military state, 4. The Dutch republic: a bourgeois fiscal-military state, 5. Sweden: a dynastic fiscal-military state, 6. The fiscal-military state and the transformation of Europe, Notes, Select bibliography, Index
Biography
Jan Glete
'A scholarly attempt to integrate the history of early modern state formation with early modern warfare in Europe.' - USI Journal
