ISBN:
9781000585902
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (322 pages)
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.52
Keywords:
Elite (Social sciences)
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Finance, Public-Europe-History
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War-Economic aspects
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Introduction: The Early Modern State: Drivers, Beneficiaries, and Discontents -- Section I: War, Economy, Representation -- 1. Powerless Representatives?: Warfare's Contrasting Impact on Early Modern Political Participation -- 2. The State and the Economic Acceleration of the Dutch Republic, 1585-1637 -- Section II: Institutions and Law -- 3. Paper Suits of Armour: Sauvegarde, Brandschat, and Security in the Countryside during Wartime in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands -- 4. The Formative Role of Early Modern Books of Ordinances: The Low Countries and Their Overseas Lands -- Section III: Finance and Contracts -- 5. The States' Army of Flanders and the English Roads, 1577-c.1610 -- 6. Finance, Money, Corruption, and the English Exchequer Bill Scandals of 1697-1699 -- 7. The Military-Commercial Complex: Contracting the Eighteenth Century British Army -- 8 . The Politics and Geopolitics of the British Debate on Monetary Policy for Warfare against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1793-1821 -- Section IV: Transnational Agents -- 9. Ministers on Demand: French Senior Government Officials as Transnational Agents of Modernity in Napoleon's Brother Kingdoms -- 10. Grasping Opportunities in Times of Crisis?: The Community of Dutch Maritime Traders in the Port of Antwerp During the French Period -- Section V: Labour and Contention -- 11. The State, Taxes, and Popular Protest in the Netherlands in the Napoleonic Period (1806-1813) -- 12. Varieties of Force: State-Organized Production, Industrialization, and Coerced Labour in Nineteenth-Century Naval Shipyards -- Selective Bibliography -- Index.
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