Leading economic historians present a groundbreaking series of country case studies exploring the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia.

In this volume an international team of scholars builds up a comprehensive analysis of the fiscal history of Europe over six centuries. It forms a fundamental s

Wenkai He shows why England and Japan, facing crises in public finance, developed the tools and institutions of a modern fiscal state, while China, facing simil

Making the Modern American Fiscal State chronicles the rise of the US system of direct and progressive taxation.

From the Netherlands to the Ottoman Empire, to Japan and India, this groundbreaking volume confronts the complex and diverse problem of the formation of fiscal