The Rise of the Fiscal State in Europe, C. 1200-1815

by RichardBonney (Editor)

• New

  Illustrated
  1999

  $418.85

  In this volume an international team of scholars builds up a comprehensive analysis of the fiscal history of Europe over six centuries. It forms a fundamental starting-point for an understanding of the distinctiveness of the emerging European states, and highlights the issue of fiscal power as an essential prerequisite for the development of the modern state.