Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy 1750–1774

The many wars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe put pressure on Europe’s ruling houses to develop new techniques for producing revenue to fund larger armies, build stronger fortifications, and bankroll longer campaigns. Scholars have described this dynamic in terms of the emergence of the fiscal-military state. In the words of Charles Tilly, ‘war makes the state and the state makes war’. Historians long have been able to examine the records of this process which had concrete and long-term effects, including the hiring of officials, the changes in administrative organization, altering of tax policies and methods of wealth extraction. Trickier and more elusive has been the uses and abuses of credit and finance and the ideas of political economy that underpinned the use of credit as armies became larger and wars more costly. Simon Adler’s Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy focuses on the writings and intellectual circle...

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  Open Access•Stefan Brüdermann, Dreißigjährigen Vom et al.•Historische Zeitschrift•2020

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