The fiscal-military state in eighteenth-century Europe :
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[Book]
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essays in honour of P.G.M. Dickson /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Christopher Storrs
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xii, 245 pages :
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illustrations, maps ;
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25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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The fiscal-military state and international rivalry during the long eighteenth century / Hamish Scott -- The Habsburg monarchy : from 'military-fiscal state' to 'militarisation' / Michael Hochedlinger -- Prussia as a fiscal-military state, 1640-1806 / Peter H. Wilson -- Russia as a fiscal-military state, 1689-1825 / Janet Hartley -- The French experience, 1661-1815 / Joël Félix and Frank Tallett -- The triumph and denouement of the British fiscal state : taxation for the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1793-1815 / Patrick Karl O'Brien -- The Savoyard fiscal-military state in the long eighteenth century / Christopher Storrs
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This volume seeks to contribute to the discussion of the fiscal-military state by providing a collection of essays on individual states, including Prussia, France and Great Britain. These are preceded by an essay which sets the fiscal-military state in broad international context