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