Vries, Peer - 2015 - First published
: The cases of Great Britain and China -- HISTORIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION: TRADITIONAL VIEWS AND ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES … view: China as a despotic, 'oriental' empire -- Alternative perspectives: Fiscal-militarism and mercantilism in Britain and … benevolent agrarian paternalism in China -- Further revisionism: Early modern parallels in state-building and the creating of …