Fiscal regimes and the political economy of premodern states
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Fiscal regimes and the political economy of premodern states
Cambridge University Press, 2015
- : hardback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Inspired by the new fiscal history, this book represents the first global survey of taxation in the premodern world. What emerges is a rich variety of institutions, including experiments with sophisticated instruments such as sovereign debt and fiduciary money, challenging the notion of a typical premodern stage of fiscal development. The studies also reveal patterns and correlations across widely dispersed societies that shed light on the basic factors driving the intensification, abatement, and innovation of fiscal regimes. Twenty scholars have contributed perspectives from a wide range of fields besides history, including anthropology, economics, political science and sociology. The volume's coverage extends beyond Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East to East Asia and the Americas, thereby transcending the Eurocentric approach of most scholarship on fiscal history.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Studying fiscal regimes Andrew Monson and Walter Scheidel
- Part I. Diversity and Commonalities in Early Extraction Regimes: 2. The Inka empire Terence N. D'Altroy
- 3. The Aztec empire Michael E. Smith
- 4. The Ancient Near East and Egypt Michael Jursa and Juan Carlos Morena Garcia
- Part II. Determinants of Intensification and Abatement: 5. Hellenistic empires Andrew Monson
- 6. The Roman republic James Tan
- 7. The early Roman monarchy Walter Scheidel
- 8. The later Roman empire Gilles Bransbourg
- 9. Early imperial China, from Qin/Han through Tang Mark E. Lewis
- 10. Imperial China under the Song and late Qing Kent Gang Deng
- Part III. Divergent Trends among Established Regimes: 11. Late Rome, Byzantium and early medieval western Europe John Haldon
- 12. The Middle East in Islamic late antiquity Hugh Kennedy
- 13. The Ottoman empire Metin M. Cosgel
- 14. Early modern Japan Philip C. Brown
- Part IV. Fragmented Political Ecologies and Institutional Innovation: 15. The Greek polis and koinon Emily Mackil
- 16. Classical Athens Josiah Ober
- 17. Why did public debt originate in Europe? David Stasavage
- Part V. Comparative Perspectives and New Frontiers: 18. Tributary empires and the New Fiscal Sociology: some comparative reflections Peter F. Bang
- 19. Interpreting the comparative history of fiscal regimes Edgar Kiser and Margaret Levi.
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