The Rise of the Fiscal State in Europe c.1200-1815

ISBN: 9780198204022 出版年：2011 页码：539 Clarendon Press

In this volume an international team of scholars builds up a comprehensive analysis of the fiscal history of Europe over six centuries. It forms a fundamental starting-point for an understanding of the distinctiveness of the emerging European states, and highlights the issue of fiscal power as an essential prerequisite for the development of the modern state.