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FISCAL-MILITARY SYSTEM PROJECT BIBLIOGRAPHY Section A FISCAL-MILITARY SYSTEM PROJECT BIBLIOGRAPHY (see also www.oxfordbibliograhies.com: “Fiscal-Military State”, “Warfare and Military Organizations”, and “War and Trade”) Section A: Concepts A1 Fiscal-Military State A1.1 FMS Studies A1.2 Taxation in individual states A2 Contractor State A3 Sovereignty A4 International Order A5 War and the State Section B: Agents and Actors B1 Contractors, Enterprisers and Entrepreneurs B2 Patronage B3 Corruption B4 Networks B5 Trust Section C: Fiscal-Military Assets C1 Personnel C1.1 Mercenaries – definition C1.2 Mercenaries as migration C1.3 Foreign soldiers C1.4 PMSCs C1.5 Recruitment C1.6 Privateering C1.7 Prisoners C1.8 Hospitals C2. Expertise C3. Information and Intelligence C4. Finance C4.1 General C4.2 War finance C4.3 Subsidies and pensions C4.4 Credit and Debt C5. War Materials C5.1 General C5.2 Liege Arms Production C5.3 Naval Stores C5.4 Logistics C6. Services C6.1 Ports C6.2 Transit Section D: Economic Aspects 1 D1 General D2 Mercantilism D3 War and Economics D4 Contracts and Treaties D5 Trade Section E: Dismantling the FMSy E1 General E2 Foreign Fighters E3 Neutrality Section F: Case Studies F1. Cities and Hubs F2. Amsterdam F3. Danzig/Baltic F4. Geneva and the Swiss Confederation F5. Savoy-Piedmont F6. Genoa F7. Hamburg F8. London F9. Riga F10. Vienna Section G: Global Comparisons SECTION A: CONCEPTS A1. Fiscal-Military State Blockmans, Wim (ed.), Fiscal Systems in the European Economy from the 13th to the 18th Centuries (Firenze, 2008) Bonney, R., The Rise of the Fiscal State in Europe, c.1200-1815 (Oxford, 1999). Bonney, R., ‘Towards the comparative fiscal history of Britain and France during the “long” eighteenth century’, in L. Prados de la Escosura (ed.), Exceptionalism and Industrialisation: Britain and its European Rivals, 1688-1815 (New York, 2004). Bowen, Huw V., and A. Gonzáles Encisco (eds.), Mobilising resources for war: Britain and Spain at work during the early modern period (Pamplona: EUNSA, 2006). ‘Examines the domestic impact of the company in terms of the state, its finances, and military power as well as trade.’ Brewer, J., The sinews of power. War, money and the English state 1688-1783 (New York, 1989). ‘Influential and readable case for the transformations, costs, and tensions involved in Britain’s war effort. Shows the success and flexibility of the British model.’ 2 Brewer, J., and E. Hellmuth (eds.), Rethinking Leviathan. The eighteenth-century state in Britain and Europe (New York, 1999). ‘A useful comparative study of two states that appeared to earlier historians to offer different state-building models, with Prussia epitomizing the strong, absolutist, bureaucratic state, contrasted with Britain’s weaker, consensual, and self-governing one. The essays challenge some of these assumptions.’ Conca Messina, Silvia A. A History of States and Economic Policies in Early Modern Europe. Perspectives in economic and social history 57. New York: Routledge, 2019. Contamine, Philippe, and Wim Blockmans, eds. War and Competition Between States. The origins of the modern state in Europe 13th to 18th centuries / general ed. Wim Blockmans … European Science Foundation; Theme A. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000. Daunton, M., ‘The Fiscal Military State and the Napoleonic Wars: Britain and France compared’, in David Cannadine (ed.), Trafalgar in history. A battle and its afterlife (Basingstoke, 2006), pp. 18-43. Dickson, P.G.M., The Financial Revolution in England. A Study in the Development of Public Credit 1688- 1736 (London, 1967). ‘Pioneering study of the fiscal mechanisms that developed after the Glorious Revolution, and how British governments adapted and reacted to both the opportunities and obstacles presented by the new financial environment.’ Dunning, C. and N.S. Smith, ‘Moving beyond absolutism. Was early modern Russia a “Fiscal-Military State”?’, Russian History, 33 (2006), pp. 19-43. Glete, Jan., War and the State in Early Modern Europe: Spain, the Dutch Republic, and Sweden as Fiscal- military States, 1500–1660 (London, 2002). ‘Examines the economic underpinning of standing forces. Glete pays particular attention to the interplay of special- interest groups within early fiscal-military states (particularly Spain, the Dutch Republic, and Sweden) and how such influences affected the direction of state policy and military development.’ Godsey, William D., The sinews of Habsburg power: Lower Austria as a Fiscal-Military State (Oxford, 2018) Graham, Aaron, and P. Walsh (eds.), The British fiscal military states 1660-c.1783 (Farnham, 2016). Harling, Philip/Peter Mandler, ‘From “Fiscal-Military” to “Laissex-Faire” state, 1760-1815’, Journal of British Studies, 32 (1993), 44-70 Hattendorf, John B, ‘English Governmental Machinery and the Conduct of War, 1702-1713,’ War and Society 3 (1985). ________. England in the War of the Spanish Succession: A Study of the English View and Conduct of Grand Strategy, 1702-12 (1987). Hoffman, P.T., and K. Norberg (eds.), Fiscal crises, liberty and representative government (Stanford, 1994). 3 Howard, Michael, War in European History (Oxford: Oxford UP, updated edition 2009) Classic study on war and the European state system with a sequence of forms of war from the war of the knights, mercenaries, merchants, professionals to the wars of the Revolution, the nations, and the technologists. Hutchinson, John, Nationalism and War (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2017) This volume examines the changing relationship between warfare, its changing forms, and the rise of the nation as a political category Kaspersen, Lars Bo, and Jeppe Strandsbjerg, Does War Make States?: Investigations of Charles Tilly’s Historical Sociology (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Mann, Michael, ‘Putting the Weberian state in its social, geopolitical and militaristic context: A response to Patrick O’Brien’, Journal of Historical Sociology, 19 (2006), 364-73 Monson, Andrew/Walter Scheidel (eds.), Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States (Cambridge, 2015) [mostly ancient empires, but has chapters on theory and on debt] O’Brien, Patrick K., and Philip A. Hunt. ‘The Rise of a Fiscal State in England, 1485–1815’, Historical Research, 66 (1993), pp. 129–176. ‘Frequently cited article by economic historians charting the emergence of a “fiscal state” over a long early modern period, emphasizing 17th- as much as 18th-century developments.’ Parker, Geoffrey, The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500- 1800. Reprint (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990) Classic study Pincus, Steven/James Robinson, ‘Faire la guerre et faire l’Etat: Nouvelles perspectives sur l’essor de l’Etat dévelopmentaliste’, Annales HSS, 71 no.1 (2016), 7-35 Rauscher, P., A. Serles, and T. Winkelbauer (eds.), Das ‘Blut des Staatskörpers’: Forschungen zur Finanzgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (HZ Beiheft 56) (Munich, 2012). Rodger, N.A.M., ‘From the “Military Revolution” to the “Fiscal-Naval State’, Journal of Maritime Research, 13 (2011), pp. 119-28. Rogers, Clifford J. The Military Revolution Debate: Readings on the Military Transformation of Early Modern Europe. History and Warfare (Boulder: Routledge, 2018) Stone, Laurence (ed.), An Imperial State at War: Britain from 1689 to 1815 (London: Routledge, 1994). ‘Important collection of essays engaging with Brewer 1989. The variety of approaches utilized by this collection’s contributors shows the range and scope of the questions raised by Brewer.’ Storrs, C., (ed.), The fiscal-military state in eighteenth-century Europe (Farnham, 2009). ‘As well as an introductory overview, and the context of international rivalry (by Hamish Scott), also included are essays on Austria, Prussia, Russia, France, and Savoy/Sardinia.’ Torres Sánchez, Rafael, Constructing a Fiscal-Military State in eighteenth-century Spain (Farnham, 2015). 4 Torres Sánchez, R., (ed.), War, state and development. Fiscal-Military States in the eighteenth century (Pamplona, 2007). Tilly, C., Coercion, capital and European states AD990-1992 (Oxford, 1992). Ullmann, Hans Peter, Der deutsche Steuerstaat: Geschichte der öffentlichen Finanzen vom 18. Jahrhundert bis heute (Munich: C.H. Beck, 2005) Wheeler, J.S., The making of a world power. War and the military revolution in seventeenth-century England (Stroud, 1999). ‘Focusing on the period of 1639–1674, shows how military pressures forced the British state to professionalize its army and (especially) navy, and to construct a fiscal-administrative apparatus to pay for it. The creation of the standing army and navy both built the state and made Britain one of the great European powers.’ Yun-Casalilla, B., and P.K. O'Brien (eds.), The rise of fiscal states. A global history, 1500-1914 (Cambridge, 2012). A1.2 Taxation in individual states Beckett, J.V., ‘The land tax or excise: the levying of taxation in seventeenth and eighteenth-century England’, English Historical Review, 100 (1985), 285-308 Blockmans, Wim (ed.), Fiscal systems in the European economy from the 13th to the 18th centuries (Florence, 2008: Firenze UP) Bonney, Richard, ‘Towards the comparative fiscal history of Britain and France during the “long” eighteenth century’, in L. Prados de la Escosura (ed.), Exceptionalism and industrialisation: Britain and its European rivals, 1688-1815 (New York, 2004: CUP) Cardoso, José Luís, and Pedro Lains (eds.), Paying for the Liberal State: The Rise of Public Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge: CUP, 2010) Darling, Linda T., Revenue-raising and Legitimacy: Tax Collection and Finance Administration in the Ottoman
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