Introduction: The Early Modern State: Drivers, Benefiaries, and Discontents

Pepijn Brandon; C.A. Romein; Lex Heerma van Voss

Introduction: The Early Modern State: Drivers, Benefiaries, and Discontents

Pepijn Brandon^*, C.A. Romein, Lex Heerma van Voss

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In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wars, subject their own and far away populations, and exert bureaucratic power over a variety of areas of social life increased dramatically. Nevertheless, these changes were far less absolute and definitive than the literature on the rise of the "modern state" once held. While war pushed the boundaries of the emerging fiscal military states of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, rulers remained highly dependent on negotiations with competing elite groups and the private networks of contractors and financial intermediaries. Attempts to increase control over subjects often resulted in popular resistance, that in their turn set limits to and influenced the direction of the development of state institutions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Early Modern State: Drivers, Beneficiaries and Discontents.
Subtitle of host publication	Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. Marjolein 't Hart
Editors	Pepijn Brandon, Lex Heerma van Voss, C. Annemieke Romein
Place of Publication	Abingdon, Oxon
Publisher	Routledge
Chapter	1
Pages	1-14
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	9780257544683
Publication status	Published - 01 Jul 2022

Keywords

State formation
Discontents
Drivers
Political Institutions

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Introduction: The Early Modern State: Drivers, Benefiaries, and Discontents. / Brandon, Pepijn; Romein, C.A.; Heerma van Voss, Lex.
The Early Modern State: Drivers, Beneficiaries and Discontents.: Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. Marjolein 't Hart. ed. / Pepijn Brandon; Lex Heerma van Voss; C. Annemieke Romein. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2022. p. 1-14.

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