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This open access book analyses Iberian expansion by using knowledge accumulated in recent years to test some of the most important theories regarding Europe’s economic development. Adopting a comparative perspective, it considers the impact of early globalization on Iberian and Western European institutions, social development and political economies. In spite of globalization’s minor importance from the commercial perspective before 1750, this book finds its impact decisive for institutional development, political economies, and processes of state-building in Iberia and Europe. The book engages current historiographies and revindicates the need to take the concept of composite monarchies as a point of departure in order to understand the period’s economic and social developments, analysing the institutions and societies resulting from contact with Iberian peoples in America and Asia. The outcome is a study that nuances and contests an excessively-negative yet prevalent image of the Iberian societies, explores the difficult relationship between empires and globalization and opens paths for comparisons to other imperial formations.

History --- Economics --- Imperialism. --- Europe—History—1492-. --- Globalization. --- Imperialism and Colonialism. --- History of Early Modern Europe. --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Imperialism --- colonialism --- Iberia --- Europe

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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 features of the fiscal state appeared across the region at different moments in time as a result of multiple independent but often interacting stimuli such as internal competition over resources, European expansion, international trade, globalisation and war. The essays offer a comparative framework for re-examining the causes of economic development across this period and show, for instance, the central role that the more effective fiscal systems of Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries played in the divergence of east and west as well as the very different paths to modernisation taken across the world.

World history --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- AA / International- internationaal --- finances publiques histoire --- 331.100 --- 331.161.0 --- openbare financien geschiedenis --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden. --- Geschiedenis van de overheidsfinanciën: agemeenheden. --- Fiscal policy --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS --- History. --- Economic History. --- Business & economics --- Economic history. --- Tax policy --- Taxation --- Economic policy --- Finance, Public --- History --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- Geschiedenis van de overheidsfinanciën: agemeenheden --- Government policy --- Arts and Humanities