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Habsburg Monarchy as a fiscal-military state
xxii, 369 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Bringing together a team of leading international experts to examine the impact of the rise and expansion of a large standing army on government and society over nearly two centuries, this themed volume provides the first major analysis of the Habsburg Monarchy as a fiscal-military state. This volumes offers a broadly comparative perspective on the Habsburg Monarchy, with particular attention to the United Kingdom and France, but also the wider international system. The contributors spotlight a range of structures, practices and historical actors that sustained the Habsburg Monarchy as a leading fiscal-military power, including the recruitment of the common soldier, the enrolment of officers, military economy, borrowing and public credit, taxation, the provincial Estates and diets, noble brokers and contractors and landowners. This volume not only provides a new perspective on vast areas of early modern Europe, the Monarchy encompassed in whole or part no fewer than fourteen current states, but also offers an internationally accessible framework for future research.
Introduction: The Habsburg monarchy as a fiscal-military state / William D. Godsey and Petr Mat'a -- The Austrian fiscal-military state in international perspective / Hamish Scott -- The fiscal-military constitution of Bourbon France in comparative perspective / Guy Rowlands -- The European fiscal-military system and the Habsburg monarchy / Peter H. Wilson -- Hungarian border defence and the Habsburg financial and military transformation in the 16th century / István Kenyeres and Géza Pálffy -- The general war commissariat: A neglected pivot of the Habsburg fiscal-military state / Thomas Winkelbauer -- Magnates and military contracting in Hungary after 1648 / András Oross -- Fiscal-military exigency and authority in 17th-century Moravia / Jiří David -- Negotiating fiscal-military coordination: Provincial tax quotas for the Habsburg army 1648-1748 / Petr Maťa -- The holy Roman empire and the Habsburg fiscal-military system c. 1606-1806 / Peter Rauscher -- Noble enterprisers: Regimental proprietorship in the Habsburg army / Horst Carl -- Habsburg war finance and noble credit-brokerage in the southern Netherlands under Charles VI / Veronika Hyden-Hanscho -- The rise of a sustainable public debt in the 18th-century Habsburg monarchy / William D. Godsey -- Conscription in the Habsburg monarchy 1740-92 / Ilya Berkovich -- Free money for war? Wartime subsidies and the 18th-century Habsburg monarchy / Patrick Swoboda -- The 'business of war' in Hungary: Saltpetre contracting during the Napoleonic period / Orsolya Szakály.
edited by William D. Godsey and Petr Maťa.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Proceedings of the British Academy ; 247