This book aims to bring state expenditure into the debate over the
construction of modern states. It has traditionally been argued
that the differences in state development could be put down to the
state's particular systems and methods for raising warfare
resources. Historians have long stressed that the different levels
of state development on a world level should be explained in terms
of the origin and management of fiscal and financial resources. But
this historical research did not pay the same attention to how that
income was spent. This book aims to redress the balance by focusing
on expenditure. As the book shows, there were glaring inter-state
differences in expenditure management and analysis that may help to
explain the patchy development of modern states. A wide-ranging
trawl of national cases, all centred on the long eighteenth
century, shows the consequences of different expenditure policies
and management methods on the underlying state and economy. This
book offers a broad panorama of national cases to show how warfare
expenditure could become a source of problems for some states and a
source of opportunities and growth for others.
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