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The Early Modern State: Drivers, Beneficiaries and Discontents: Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. Marjolein 't Hart book cover

1st Edition

The Early Modern State: Drivers, Beneficiaries and Discontents Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. Marjolein 't Hart

Edited By Pepijn Brandon, Lex Heerma van Voss, Annemieke Romein Copyright 2022
322 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

322 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

322 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wars, subject their own and far away populations, and exert bureaucratic power over a variety of areas of social life increased dramatically. Nevertheless, these changes were far less absolute and definitive than the literature on the rise of the "modern state" once held. While war pushed the... Read more

Introduction

P. Brandon, C.A. Romein, and L. Heerma van Voss

Part I: Metareflections

  1. Powerless Representatives? Warfare’s Contrasting Impact on Early-Modern Political Participation
    W.P. Blockmans

  2. Economic Acceleration in the Dutch Republic, 1585–1637
    M. Prak and J.L. van Zanden

    3.

    Part II: Institutions and Law

  3. Paper Suits of Armour. Sauvegarde, Brandschat, and Security in the Countryside During Wartime in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands
    E. Swart

  4. The Formative Role of Early-Modern Books of Ordinances. The Low Countries and their Overseas Lands
    C.A. Romein

    5.

    Part III: Finance and contracts

  5. The States’ Army of Flanders and the English Roads, 1577 to around 1610
    D.J.B. Trim

  6. Finance, Money, Corruption, and the English Exchequer Bill Scandals of 1697–1699
    A. Graham

  7. The Military-Commercial Complex. Contracting the Eighteenth Century British Army
    P.J. Way

  8. The Politics and Geopolitics of the British Debate on Monetary Policy for Warfare against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1793–1821
    P.K. O’Brien

Part IV: Transnational Agents

9. Ministers on Demand. French Senior Government Officials as Transnational Agents of Modernity in Napoleon’s Brother Kingdoms
J. Gabriëls

10. Grasping Opportunities in Times of Crisis? The Community of Dutch Maritime Traders in the Port of Antwerp During the French Period
H. Greefs

Part V: Labour and Contention

11. The State, Taxes, and Popular Protest in the Netherlands in the Napoleonic Period (1806–1813)
J. Joor

12. Varieties of Force. State-Organized Production, Industrialization, and Coerced Labour in Nineteenth-Century Naval Shipyards
P. Brandon

Biography

Pepijn Brandon is chair of Global Economic and Social History at VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.　

Lex Heerma van Voss is the former director of the Huygens Institute for the History and Culture of the Netherlands in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and emeritus professor in the history of social security at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Annemieke Romein is postdoctoral researcher in early modern political-institutional/legal history at the Huygens Institute for the History and Culture of the Netherlands in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

　

 

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