This book deals with the crucial relationship between war and state formation in early modern Europe. Through his participation in the Nine Years War (1688-97) and the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14), Victor Amadeus II, Duke of Savoy, acquired a reputation for unrivaled "Machiavellian" diplomacy on the international stage. This book puts that diplomacy in context, and considers how the duke raised men and money (at home and abroad), the administrative changes forced by war, the resulting domestic pressures, and how these were dealt with.
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This book deals with the crucial relationship between war and state formation in early modern Europe. Through his participation in the Nine Years War (1688 97) and the War of the Spanish Succession (1701 14), Victor Amadeus II, duke of Savoy, acquired a reputation for unrivalled 'Machiavellian' diplomacy on the international stage. This book puts that diplomacy in context, and considers how the duke raised men and money (at home and abroad), the administrative changes forced by war, the resulting domestic pressures, and how these were dealt with.
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Armies, particularly standing ones, and their development, have figured largely in accounts of state formation, particularly for those who see this as being about the state's assertion of a monopoly of legitimate force within its own borders. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contadore generale, guerra del sale, generale delle finanze, politica sabauda, entrate pubbliche, stamped paper tax, imperial feudatories, subsidy arrears, stato sabaudo, ducal finances, ducal policy, ducal officials, ducal revenues, diplomacy and the rise, ducal army, struttura sociale, salt gabelle, alpine barrier, allied ministers, imperial vassals, successive dukes, ducal authority, enemy deserters, million lire, imperial fiefs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nine Years War, War of the Spanish Succession, Charles Emanuel, Conseil des Commis, Duchy of Savoy, Grand Alliance, Duchy of Aosta, Dutch Republic, Victor Aniadeus, San Martino, Madama Reale, Chambre des Comptes, Queen Anne, Casa Savoia, Emanuel Filibert, Max Emanuel of Bavaria, Orazio Provana, Pietro Micca, Salt War, Turin Senate, Vittorio Amedco, William Ill, Carron de Saint-Thomas, French Protestants, Glorieuse Rentrée New!
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Armies, particularly standing ones, and their development, have figured largely in accounts of state formation, particularly for those who see this as being about the state's assertion of a monopoly of legitimate force within its own borders. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
contadore generale, guerra del sale, generale delle finanze, politica sabauda, entrate pubbliche, stamped paper tax, imperial feudatories, subsidy arrears, stato sabaudo, ducal finances, ducal policy, ducal officials, ducal revenues, diplomacy and the rise, ducal army, struttura sociale, salt gabelle, alpine barrier, allied ministers, imperial vassals, successive dukes, ducal authority, enemy deserters, million lire, imperial fiefs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nine Years War, War of the Spanish Succession, Charles Emanuel, Conseil des Commis, Duchy of Savoy, Grand Alliance, Duchy of Aosta, Dutch Republic, Victor Aniadeus, San Martino, Madama Reale, Chambre des Comptes, Queen Anne, Casa Savoia, Emanuel Filibert, Max Emanuel of Bavaria, Orazio Provana, Pietro Micca, Salt War, Turin Senate, Vittorio Amedco, William Ill, Carron de Saint-Thomas, French Protestants, Glorieuse Rentrée New!
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- Inheriting Power by Giovanni Levi on 11 pages
- The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State 1688-1783 by John Brewer on page 73, page 171, and Back Matter
- Royal and Republican Sovereignty in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Memory of Ragnhild Hatton by Robert Oresko on page 191, and Back Matter
- Economic Systems and State Finance (Origins of the Modern State in Europe) by Richard Bonney on page 75, and Back Matter
- The European Nobilities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by H. M. Scott on page 221
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