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Book SynopsisThis volume, one of the books in the Making of Modern Freedom series, is a collection of essays by eminent historians who explore the relationship between state finance and political development in fifteenth and sixteenth century Europe. They analyze how during this period European states were engaged in nearly continuous warfare and how those warfares produced fiscal crises. As a result, rulers were forced to enter into novel fiscal agreements with their subjects, often providing their subjects more political power, in exchange.
The volume begins with two essays on England. David Harris Sacks traces the politics of government finance from the fifteenth century to the eve of the Civil War, and J. R. Jones carries the story forward into the eighteenth century, when representative government was jeopardized by new and powerful financial interests. The third essay, by Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr., explains why the Netherlands'' exceptional ability to raise money by taxes and loan
Table of Contents
Contents HOFFMAN PHILIP T. NORBERG KATHRYN 1. SACKS DAVID HARRIS 2. JONES J.R. 3. VEENENDAAL JR. AUGUSTUS J. 4. THOMPSON I. A. A. 5. THOMPSON I. A. A. 6. HOFFMAN PHILIP T. 7. NORBERG KATHRYN HOFFMAN PHILIP T. NORBERG KATHRYN
