Jan Glete

War and the State in Early Modern Europe

Spain, the Dutch Republic and Sweden as Fiscal-Military States

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Warfare and History
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780415226455
• ISBN-10: 0415226457
• Artikelnr.: 22270064

Autorenporträt

Jan Glete

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Prologue
1. The rise of the fiscal-military state
1500-1700
2. Explaining the fiscal-military state
3. The Spanish monarchy: the first fiscal-military state
4. The Dutch republic: a bourgeois fiscal-military state
5. Sweden: a dynastic fiscal-military state
6. The fiscal-military state and the transformation of Europe
Notes
Select bibliography
Index