Sinopsis de WAR, STATE AND DEVELOPMENT: FISCAL-MILITARY STATUS IN THE EIGHTEE NTH CENTURY
The traditional historical picture painted of the Modern Period depicts a predatory, voracious state that managed to meet its essential war-waging objective by dint of coercion and rifling society of its human and economic resources. This oversimplified image belies the real historical situation. The fact is that Europeans managed to grow not so much by accreting years of peace and despite war but rather with war. This book moots the possibility of linking war with development and doing so on the basis of the «fiscal-military» state. The eighteenth century has been chosen as the timeframe because it was precisely then when the need to mobilise war resources was at its height, when wars were most expensive and complex and when, at the same time, there was more growth and development. This book offers an analysis of this theory and sees how it holds up over a wide range of national cases.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Eunsa. Ediciones Universidad de Navarra, S.A.
ISBN: 9788431325114
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 504
Tiempo de lectura:
10h 26m
Fecha de lanzamiento: 12/02/2008
Año de edición: 2008
Plaza de edición: Barañain (Navarra)
Alto: 24.0 cm
Ancho: 16.0 cm
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Rafael Torres Sánchez
Rafael Torres Sánchez (Cartagena, 1962) es Catedrático en la Universidad de Navarra. Su investigación se ha centrado en la Historia Militar del siglo XVIII. En la actualidad coordina un grupo internacional de investigadores sobre la movilización de recursos para la guerra en la Monarquía Hispánica del siglo XVIII: http://www.unav.edu/centro/contractorstate/. Entre sus monografía, destacar El precio de la guerra: El estado fiscal-militar de Carlos III, 1779-1783, Marcial Pons, Madrid (2013), Constructing a Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth-Century Spain, Palgrave-Macmillan, Hampshire, UK (2015) y Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford, Oxford University Press, (2016).