Overview
- Presents an interdisciplinary study of warfare and economic history and of the formation of states
- Features top scholars in the field of economic history, economics, and political science
- Furnishes a multifaceted study of state formations and conflicts, democracies and dictatorships, and twentieth-century total wars
Part of the book series: Studies in Economic History (SEH)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Wars and State Formation in the Short and Long Run
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Political Economy of Democracies and Dictatorships
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Economic History of the World Wars
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Back Matter
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About this book
This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections of war, state formation, and political economy, i.e., how conflicts have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies. The contributors come from different fields of social and human sciencies, all featuring an interdisciplinary approach to the study of societal development. The types of big issues analyzed in this volume include the formation of European and non-European states in the early modern and modern period, the emergence of various forms of states and eventually modern democracies with extensive welfare states, the violent upheavals that influenced these processes, the persistence of dictatorships and non-democratic forms of government, and the arrival of total war and its consequences, especially in the context of twentieth-century world wars. One of the key themes is the dichotomy between democracies and dictatorships; namely, what were the origins of their emergence and evolution, why did some revolutions succeed and other fail, and why did democracies, on the whole, emerge victorious in the twentieth-century age of total wars? The contributions in this book are written with academic and non-academic audiences in mind, and both will find the broad themes discussed in this volume intuitive and useful.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Economic History of Warfare and State Formation
Editors: Jari Eloranta, Eric Golson, Andrei Markevich, Nikolaus Wolf
Series Title: Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1605-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Editors 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1604-2Published: 30 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9398-2Published: 30 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-1605-9Published: 19 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2364-1797
Series E-ISSN: 2364-1800
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 283
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, International Political Economy, Military and Defence Studies, Political Theory, World History, Global and Transnational History, Political History