Title War and the state in early modern Europe : Spain, the Dutch Republic and Sweden as fiscal-military states, 1500-1660 / Jan Glete

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 277 pages) Series Warfare and history Warfare and history. Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Prologue; The rise of the fiscal-military state, 1500 1700; Explaining the fiscal-military state; The Spanish monarchy: the first fiscal-military state; The Dutch republic: a bourgeois fiscal-military state; Sweden: a dynastic fiscal-military state; The fiscal-military state and the transformation of Europe; Notes; Select bibliography; Index Summary The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw many ambitious European rulers develop permanent armies and navies. Jan Glete examines this military change as a central part of the political, social and economic transformation of early modern Europe Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-264) and index Notes Print version record Subject Fiscal policy -- Spain -- 16th century Fiscal policy -- Netherlands -- 16th century Fiscal policy -- Sweden -- 16th century HISTORY -- Military -- Pictorial. Economic history Fiscal policy SUBJECT Europe -- History, Military -- 1492-1648. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97004941 Spain -- History, Military. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126142 Netherlands -- History, Military Sweden -- History, Military Europe -- Economic conditions -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045670 Europe -- History, Naval Subject Europe Netherlands Spain Sweden Genre/Form Electronic books Military history Naval history Form Electronic book ISBN 0203465318 9780203465318

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