Powerful, centralized states controlling a large share of national income only begin to appear in Europe after 1500. We build a model that explains their emergence in response to the increasing importance of money for military success. When fiscal resources are not crucial for winning wars, the...

The British Veil Wars maps the space of the British debates on Islamic women's apparel and identifies the political conditions and structures that direct the non regulation of its practice in public institutions, such as schools. The article argues that despite the poignant political dilemmas...

This paper analyzes the common aspects and the differences between the economocracy and the world war. From an economic view, the world wars have some effects on the economies. The theme of world wars is that they give economic solutions with an inhuman way from the view of social and human...

The aim of the paper is to explore the role played by cost accounting in Italy's Industrial Mobilization System and in the largest firm manufacturing weaponry, Ansaldo of Genoa, during WWI. While in other countries such as the UK and the US, efficiency in buying and managing war material was an...

1. Changing strategies and global power in the long eighteenth century -- 2. Eighteenth-century realities and historiographical approaches -- 3. Administering the fiscal-military state : ordinary revenues : trusting in a consumers world -- 4. Increasing revenue through administration change :...