Introduction -- The cooperative legislative framework : enabling growth and promoting cooperative principles -- Central associations : leadership and economic development -- Financing cooperatives : members, markets and networks -- Consortia network : economies of scale and national expansion --...

"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 states in Eurasia between 1500 and 1914. This series of country case studies from leading economic historians reveals that distinctive...