In recent decades, historians of early modern Europe, and above all those who study the eighteenth century, elaborated the concept of what has been called the fiscal-military state. This volume of essays by leading authorities, all of whom have published widely on their chosen t…
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 contex…
In recent decades, historians of early modern Europe, and above all those who study the eighteenth century, elaborated the concept of what has been called the fiscal-military state. This volume of essays by leading authorities, all of whom have published widely on their chosen t…
Peter Dickson's important study of the origins and development of the system of public borrowing which enabled Great Britain to emerge as a world power in the 18th century has long been out of print. This publication reprints the 1993 version of the book, which made significant …
Peter Dickson's important study of the origins and development of the system of public borrowing which enabled Great Britain to emerge as a world power in the eighteenth century has long been out of print. The present print-on-demand volume reprints the book in the 1993 version …
