The making of a bourgeois state : war, politics and finance during the Dutch revolt
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The making of a bourgeois state : war, politics and finance during the Dutch revolt
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1993
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Deals with the history of the Dutch Republic from the years 1515 to 1647. This turbulent period encompasses the Low Countries' absorption into the Habsburg Empire in 1515, the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht, the start of the Eighty Years War, the outbreak of the Thirty Years War and more.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The setting of the problem: the Dutch Republic - united in contrasts
- the costs of warfare. Part 2 The relative crisis: shifting the burden of war
- the first shift - centralized means
- the second shift - provincial taxation
- the third shift - public loans. Part 3 Consequences of shifting: civil servants in a fragmented state
- state finances and patterns of state formation.
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