War, power and the economy : mercantilism and state formation in 18th-century Europe /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	González Enciso, Agustín (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Edition:	1 edition.
Series:	Routledge explorations in economic history ; 8.
Subjects:	Europe > Economic conditions > 18th century. Europe > Commercial policy > History > 18th century. Taxation > Europe > History > 18th century. Europe > History, Military > 18th century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Changing strategies and global power in the long eighteenth century
Eighteenth-century realities and historiographical approaches
Administering the fiscal-military state : ordinary revenues : trusting in a consumers world
Increasing revenue through administration change : direct administration of taxes
Growing needs : the cost of war and extraordinary revenue
Foreseeing difficulties and administering for the future : the public debt
The administration of income : spending and the contractor state
Shipbuilding, the navy and the contractor state
Arms provisioning and the contractor state
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index.