"In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wars, subject their own and far away populations, and exert bureaucratic power over a variety of areas of social life increased dramatically. Nevertheless, these changes were far less absolute and definitive than the literature on the rise of the "modern state" once held. While war pushed the boundaries of the emerging fiscal military states of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, rulers remained highly dependent on negotiations with competing elite groups and the private networks of contractors and financial intermediaries. Attempts to increase control over subjects often resulted in popular resistance, that in their turn set limits to a...
People think of medieval medicine as primitive and non-academic, and assume modern medicine to be dr...
In July 2012 historians and economists met in Paris for a conference entitled State Cash Resources a...
Factional Struggles' explores the dynamics of conflicts among ruling elites within cities, dynastic ...
In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wa...
In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wa...
During the early-modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wars, make t...
In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wa...
Why was early modern Europe the starting point of the economic expansion which led to the Industrial...
Theoretical work on state formation and capacity has focused mostly on early modern Europe and on th...
State formation in Europe and, more precisely, the nature and development of the early modern type o...
While the debate on the role of war in state development in early modern Europe has ranged widely, t...
The traditional historiography of early modern state-building has usually followed the western Europ...
This major new textbook addresses fundamental questions about the nature of the state in early moder...
In recent decades, historians of early-modern Europe, and above all those who study the eighteenth c...
The traditional historiography of early modern state-building has usually followed the western Europ...
People think of medieval medicine as primitive and non-academic, and assume modern medicine to be dr...
In July 2012 historians and economists met in Paris for a conference entitled State Cash Resources a...
Factional Struggles' explores the dynamics of conflicts among ruling elites within cities, dynastic ...
In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wa...
In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wa...
During the early-modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wars, make t...
In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wa...
Why was early modern Europe the starting point of the economic expansion which led to the Industrial...
Theoretical work on state formation and capacity has focused mostly on early modern Europe and on th...
State formation in Europe and, more precisely, the nature and development of the early modern type o...
While the debate on the role of war in state development in early modern Europe has ranged widely, t...
The traditional historiography of early modern state-building has usually followed the western Europ...
This major new textbook addresses fundamental questions about the nature of the state in early moder...
In recent decades, historians of early-modern Europe, and above all those who study the eighteenth c...
The traditional historiography of early modern state-building has usually followed the western Europ...
People think of medieval medicine as primitive and non-academic, and assume modern medicine to be dr...
In July 2012 historians and economists met in Paris for a conference entitled State Cash Resources a...
Factional Struggles' explores the dynamics of conflicts among ruling elites within cities, dynastic ...