Fiscal-military state

Short description: One where military needs dominate fiscal policy

A fiscal-military state is a state that bases its economic model on the sustainment of its armed forces, usually in times of prolonged or severe conflict. Characteristically, fiscal-military states will subject citizens to high taxation for this purpose.[1]

In the past, states such as Spain, the Netherlands and Sweden, which were embroiled in long-lasting periods of war for local or global hegemony, were organized as fiscal-military states. The British East India Company also employed military fiscalism in maintenance of rule in India during the mid-18th century. Colonial powers generated their revenue for the maintenance of the army. Currently, few states could be described as fiscal-military states, probably because of the decline of large-scale international conflicts in recent times.[citation needed]

## Contents

* 1 Historiography (Britain)
* 2 See also
* 3 Further reading
* 4 Notes
* 5 References

## Historiography (Britain)

In British history the concept was popularised by John Brewer’s study of eighteenth-century Britain as a “fiscal-military” polity.[2] Earlier eighteenth-century narratives already compiled fiscal and military data; for example, James Ralph’s The History of England, During the Reigns of King William, Queen Anne, and King George I (1744–46) appended customs and excise series, national-debt tables, and army/militia returns.[3][4]

## See also

* War economy
* War effort

## Further reading

* The Rise of Fiscal States: A Global History, 1500-1914, eds. Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla, Patrick K. O'Brien and Francisco Comín Comín. ( Cambridge University Press, 2012).
* The Rise of the Fiscal State in Europe c.1200-1815. Patrick Bonney, Oxford University Press, 1999.
* The Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Essays in honour of P.G.M. Dickson. Christopher Storrs, Routledge, 2016.

## Notes

1. ↑ "Glorious Revolution \- uk.encarta". Archived from the original on 2009-09-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20090930001402/http://uk.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761563392/Glorious_Revolution.html.
2. ↑ Brewer, John (1989). The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State, 1688–1783. Knopf.
3. ↑ McKinsey, Elizabeth R. (1973). "James Ralph: The Professional Writer Comes of Age". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 117 (1): 71–72.
4. ↑ Okie, Laird (1991). Augustan Historical Writing: Historiography in England, 1688–1750. University Press of America. pp. 155–164.

## References

* Glete, Jan (2002) Spain, the Dutch Republic and Sweden as Fiscal-Military States, 1500-1660, London: Routledge ISBN 0-415-22644-9

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