Constructing a Fiscal Military State in Eighteenth Century Spain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constructing a Fiscal Military State in Eighteenth Century Spain write by Rafael Torres Sánchez. This book was released on 2015-05-25. Constructing a Fiscal Military State in Eighteenth Century Spain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historically, Spain has often been represented as a financial failure, a state limited by its absolutist monarchy and doomed to fiscal and financial failure without hope of lasting growth. The collapse of the Spanish state at the beginning of the nineteenth century would seem to bear out this view of the limitations of Spain's absolutist state, and this historical school of thought presents the eighteenth century as the last episode in a long history of decline that is directly linked to the failure of the sixteenth-century Spanish imperial absolutist monarchy. This study provides a different perspective, suggesting that in fact during the eighteenth century, Spain's fiscal-military state was reconstructed and grew. It shows how the development of the Spanish fiscal-military state was based on different growth factors to those of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; and that with this change, most of the state's structure and its relationship with élites and taxpayers altered irrevocably. In the ceaseless search for solutions, the Spanish state applied a wide range of financial and fiscal policies to expand its empire. The research in this book is inspired by current historical discussions, and provides a new perspective on the historical debate that often compares English 'success' with continental 'failure'.
The Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth-Century Europe
The Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth-Century Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth-Century Europe write by Christopher Storrs. This book was released on 2016-03-03. The Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth-Century Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent decades, historians of early-modern Europe, and above all those who study the eighteenth century, have elaborated the concept of what has been called the 'fiscal-military state'. This is a state whose international effectiveness was founded upon the development of large armed forces, whose performance and supply necessitated both further administrative development and the provision of large sums, the raising of which involved unprecedented levels of taxation and borrowing by governments. The present collection of essays, by leading authorities in their individual fields, all of whom have published widely on their chosen topic, explores the subject of the fiscal-military state by focusing on its leading exemplars in eighteenth-century Europe: Austria, Britain, France, Prussia and Russia. It also includes a chapter on the Savoyard state (the kingdom of Sardinia), a lesser power whose career illuminates by comparison developments elsewhere. In addition, and rather unusually, a further chapter considers the fiscal-military state in a broader, comparative international context, in the arena of international relations. Each chapter provides a summary of the state of knowledge regarding the fiscal-military state debate insofar as it relates to the state under consideration. As well as contributing to that debate, they take matters further by systematically analysing the sources of wealth and income, and the way these were tapped, and the broader impact that this attempt to extract resources had on society and the state, both in the short and longer term. The differing patterns, and the variety of models of fiscal-military state makes for ease of comparison across Europe, making the volume an invaluable resource to both students and researchers alike.
Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century
Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century write by Rafael Torres Sánchez. This book was released on 2016-07-01. Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century offers a new approach to the relationship between warfare and state construction. Historians looking at how war funding impinged on state development, and how state growth made wars more significant, have tended to downplay the role of military-provisioning entrepreneurs. Written off as corrupt and selfish, these entrepreneurs jarred with the received view of a rationally growing and modernising state. This volume shows that the state-entrepreneur relationship was much more fluid and constant than previously thought. The state was not able to enforce a top-down military supply policy; at the same time it benefited from the entrepreneurs' collaboration and their shared mercantilist ambitions. The entrepreneurs' mobilisation of military supplies was crucial for extending state authority and helped to knit together national and colonial markets. But this fluid state-entrepreneur relationship gradually became shrouded in privileges and monopolies, not so much ideology driven or imposed by the entrepreneurs but rather as an arrangement exploited by the state to boost its control over them, whittling down middlemen and ensuring the solvency and creditworthiness of the chosen few. This arrangement spiralled into a risky inter-dependence and cramped entrepreneurial competition. Rafael Torres Sánchez furnishes new insights into the role of military entrepreneurs in debates about warfare and state construction.
The Fiscal Military State in Eighteenth-century Europe
The Fiscal Military State in Eighteenth-century Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Fiscal Military State in Eighteenth-century Europe write by Christopher Storrs. This book was released on 2008. The Fiscal Military State in Eighteenth-century Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
War, State and Development
War, State and Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War, State and Development write by Rafael Torres Sánchez. This book was released on 2007. War, State and Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
