A history of states and economic policies in early modern Europe

Présentation de l'éditeur : "Why was early modern Europe the starting point of the economic expansion which led to the Industrial Revolution? What was the state s role in this momentous transformation? A History of States and Economic Policies in Early Modern Europe takes a comparative app...

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Auteurs principaux : Conca Messina Silvia A. (Auteur), Christopher Sarah J. (Traducteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : A history of states and economic policies in early modern Europe / Silvia A. Conca Messina; translation by Sarah J. Christopher
Publié : London, New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group , 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VI-238 p.)
Collection : Perspectives in economic and social history ; 57
Traduction de : tProfitti del potere : stato ed economica nell' Europa moderna
Sujets :
  • Part I. War, finance, and mercantilism
  • 1. Great divergence, fiscal-military state and economic policy
  • 2. From trading cities to territorial states
  • 3. The "military revolution"
  • 4. The rise of the fiscal state
  • 5. Different paths to public finance and fiscal systems
  • 6. European states and the crisis of the seventeenth century
  • 7. Responses to the crisis : recentering the european economy
  • 8. Mercantilism
  • 9. Naval power and global trade
  • 10. The economic war between France and Britain in the 18th century
  • Part II. Economic policies
  • 11. The Italian states (16th-17th centuries)
  • 12. State, economic policy and the Portuguese empire
  • 13. Spain: empire, crisis, reforms
  • 14. The Dutch Republic : a "merchant state"
  • 15. France : state, colbertism, economic performance
  • 16. England and the UK : the mercantile system
  • 17. The economic policy of Sweden
  • 18. Russia from Peter the Great to Catherine
  • 19. State and economy in Frederick II's Brandenburg-Prussia
  • 20. The Habsburg monarchy
  • Conclusion