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War and Society

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January 8: The Rise of the Fiscal-Military State in Europe

Readings:
• Lecture

January 10: International Context and the State, 1600-1871

Maps:
• Europe in 1648
• Europe in 1714
• Europe in 1815, with Napoleon's Empire in 1812
• Europe from 1871 to 1914
• The Holy Roman Empire in 1789
• The Partitions of Poland, 1772-95

Readings:
• Lecture
• Anderson, Introduction, pp. 13-32.

Recommended:
• Scott, Hamish. 2009. "The Fiscal-Military State and International Rivalry during the Long Eighteenth Century." In Storrs, Christopher, Ed. The Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth Century Europe. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 23-54.

January 12: Warfare on Land – The Evolution of Army Styles

Readings:
• Lecture
• Anderson, Parts 1 and 2, pp. 33-156.

Recommended:
• Asch, Ronald G. 1999. "Warfare in the Age of the Thirty Years War, 1598-1648." In Jeremy Black, Ed. European Warfare, 1453-1815. London: Macmillan.
• Lynn, John A. 1996. "The Evolution of Army Style in the Modern West, 800-2000." International History Review, 18(3): 505–45.

January 15: NO CLASS (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)

• No readings.

January 17: Warfare on Land – The Military Revolution

Figures:
• The Army of France, 1494-1945
• The Army of Prussia / Germany, 1618-1945
• Round Towers vs. Bastions
• Vauban's Defensive Works
• Geneva and its Fortifications in 1841
• Vauban's Siege Technique
• The Siege of Maastricht, 1632
• The Siege of Lille, 1708
• The Siege of Jülich, 1621–22 by Pieter Snayers

Readings:
• Lecture

Recommended:
• Wilson, Peter H. 1999. "Warfare in the Old Regime, 1648-1789." In Jeremy Black, Ed. European Warfare, 1453-1815. London: Macmillan.
• Black, Jeremy. 1999. "Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warfare." In Jeremy Black, Ed. European Warfare, 1453-1815. London: Macmillan.

January 19: Warfare at Sea – Merchant Marine and Land Tactics

Readings:
• Lecture
• Harding, Richard. 1999. "Naval Warfare, 1453-1815." In Jeremy Black, Ed. European Warfare, 1453-1815. London: Macmillan.

January 22: Warfare at Sea – The Growth of Navies

Figures:
• Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys off the Flemish Coast in October 1602 by Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, 1617
• Cut-out diagram of H.M.S. Temeraire
• Redoutable at the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805 by Louis-Philippe Crépin, 1807
• Fleet Tactics in the Age of Sail
• The Battle of the Capes, 1781 by V. Zveg, 1962

Readings:
• Lecture

Recommended:
• Harding, Richard. 1999. Seapower and Naval Warfare, 1650-1830. London: Routledge. Chapters 3 and 11, pp. 37-58, 281-88.

January 24: How States Paid for War

Readings:
• Lecture

January 26: Taxation – The Struggle over Assessments

Readings:
• Lecture

Recommended:
• Coşgel, Metin M., and Thomas J. Miceli. 2009. "Tax Collection in History." Public Finance Review, 37(4): 399-420.
• Krüger, Kersten. 1987. "Public Finance and Modernisation: The Change from Domain State to Tax State in Hesse in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries — A Case Study." In Peter-Christian Witt, ed. Wealth and Taxation in Central Europe: The History and Sociology of Public Finance. Leamington Spa: Berg.

January 29: Revenue Collection –Tax Farming and Venal Offices

Readings:
• Lecture

Recommended:
• Swart, Koenraad W. 2002. "The Sale of Public Offices." In Arnold J. Heidenheimer and Michael Johnston, Eds. Political Corruption: Concepts & Contexts, Third Edition. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, pp. 95-106.

January 31: Revenue Collection – State Bureaucracy

Readings:
• Lecture

February 2: Political Institutions – The Fundamental Problems of Resource Extraction

Readings:
• Lecture
• Levi, Margaret. 1988. Of Rule and Revenue. Berkeley: University of California Press, Chapters 2 and 3.

February 5: Political Institutions – Absolutism

Readings:
• Lecture

Recommended:
• Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent. 1998. "The Political Economy of Absolutism Reconsidered." In Robert H. Bates, et al., Eds. Analytic Narratives. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 64-108.

February 7: Political Institutions – Estates and Selective Benefits

Readings:
• Lecture

February 9: Political Institutions – The Representative Tax State

Readings:
• Lecture

Recommended:
• Cox, Gary W. 2011. "War, Moral Hazard, and Ministerial Responsibility: England after the Glorious Revolution," Journal of Economic History, 71(1): 133–61.

February 12: War on Credit – Borrowing and Debt Servicing

Readings:
• Lecture

February 14: MIDTERM EXAMINATION

• In class, closed book, closed notes.

February 16: The Dutch Republic – Medieval Origins and Revolt, 1384-1581

Maps:
• House of Habsburg at Abdication of Emperor Charles V, 1555
• Phases of the Dutch Revolt, 1576-98
• The Netherlands, 1568

Required:
• Lecture

February 19: NO CLASS (President's Day)

• No readings.

February 21: The Dutch Republic – Formation and Institutions, 1581-1609

Required:
• Lecture

Recommended:
• Boogman, J.C. 1979. "The Union of Utrecht: Its Genesis and Consequences." BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 94(3): 377–407.
• Fritschy, Wantje. 2003. "A 'Financial Revolution' Reconsidered: Public Finance in Holland during the Dutch Revolt, 1568–1648." Economic History Review, 56(1): 57–89.

February 23: The Dutch Republic – Thirty Years War, 1618-48

Required:
• Lecture

February 26: The Dutch Republic – The Golden Age and William III, 1650-1702

Required:
• Lecture

February 28: The Dutch Republic – Decline and Fall, 1702-1806

Required:
• Lecture

March 2: The Dutch Republic – Paying for the Republic

Figures:
• Common Means Tax in Holland, 1575-1648
• Taxes and Debt in Holland, 1575-1794
• Interest Rates in Holland, 1575-1748
• Finances of Holland, 1575-1794

Required:
• Lecture

March 5: France – Medieval Origins and Wars of Religion, 843-1598

Maps:
• Royal Domain and Fiefs in France, 999
• France during the Second English Invasion, 1415-53
• Fragmented France, 1477

Readings:
• Lecture

March 7: France – Richelieu and Mazarin, 1624-1661

Readings:
• Lecture

March 9: France – Wars of Louis XIV, 1667-1714

Readings:
• Lecture

Recommended:
• Félix, Joël and Frank Tallett. "The French Experience, 1661-1815." In Storrs, Christopher, Ed. The Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth Century Europe. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 147-166.

March 12: France – Institutions of the Ancien Regime

Readings:
• Lecture

March 14: France – Crisis and Revolution, 1715-1789

Maps:
• France in the 18th Century, 1715-89
• The Généralité of France, 1789

Readings:
• Lecture

March 16: France – Paying for the Kingdom

Figures:
• French Tax Income, Military Spending, and Defaults, 1600-1789
• Military Spending as Deviation from Peace Trend in France, 1600-1789
• Tax Burden on Average Worker, 1600-1789

Readings:
• Lecture

Recommended:
• Lynn, John A. "The Pattern of Army Growth, 1445-1945." In John A. Lynn, Ed. Tools of War: Instruments, Ideas, and Institutions of Warfare, 1445-1871. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

March 19: FINAL EXAMINATION (11:30a-2:30p)

• In-class, closed book, closed notes.