Introduction, by Karel Čapek.--The period of princes and kings, by V. Chaloupecký.--The heritage of the Bohemian reformation, by J. L. Hromádka.--The Habsburgs and Czechs at the period of the reformation and counter-reformation, by František Hrubý.--The spirit of modern Czechoslovak...

Introduction : systems of life, or bioeconomic politics / Richard A. Barney and Warren Montag -- Looking for (economic) growth in the eighteenth century / Christian Marouby -- An African diasporic critique of violence / James Edward Ford III -- Rousseau : vital instinct and pity / Pierre...

War, finance, and mercantilism -- Great divergence, fiscal-military state and economic policy -- From trading cities to territorial states -- The "military revolution" -- The rise of the fiscal state -- Different paths to public finance and fiscal systems -- European states and the crisis of the...