The Habsburg Monarchy as a Fiscal-Military State

Contours and Perspectives 1648-1815

Edited by William D. Godsey and Petr Maťa

British Academy

Proceedings of the British Academy

Contributes to the international debate about the fiscal-military state in early modern Europe, rendering greater precision and depth to the concept
Applies the concept of the fiscal-military state to the Habsburg Monarchy, increasing knowledge and understanding of society, politics, and government in the Monarchy
Employs the concept of 'composite monarchy', manifesting the complex political framework within which the Habsburg fiscal-military state operated within its own borders
Advances the idea of a Habsburg 'fiscal-military core' and highlights both processes of integration and new forms of particularism within the Monarchy

The Habsburg Monarchy as a Fiscal-Military State

Contours and Perspectives 1648-1815

Edited by William D. Godsey and Petr Maťa

British Academy

Proceedings of the British Academy

Description

Bringing together a team of leading international experts to examine the impact of the rise and expansion of a large standing army on government and society over nearly two centuries, this themed volume provides the first major analysis of the Habsburg Monarchy as a fiscal-military state. This volumes offers a broadly comparative perspective on the Habsburg Monarchy, with particular attention to the United Kingdom and France, but also the wider international system. The contributors spotlight a range of structures, practices, and historical actors that sustained the Habsburg Monarchy as a leading fiscal-military power, including the recruitment of the common soldier, the enrolment of officers, military economy, borrowing and public credit, taxation, the provincial Estates and diets, noble brokers and contractors, and landowners. This volume not only provides a new perspective on vast areas of early modern Europe - the Monarchy encompassed in whole or part no fewer than 14 current states - but also offers an internationally accessible framework for future research.

The Habsburg Monarchy as a Fiscal-Military State

Contours and Perspectives 1648-1815

Edited by William D. Godsey and Petr Maťa

British Academy

Proceedings of the British Academy

Introduction: The Habsburg Monarchy as a Fiscal-Military State, WILLIAM D. GODSEY AND PETR MAŤA
1:The Austrian Fiscal-Military State in International Perspective, HAMISH SCOTT
2:The Fiscal-Military Constitution of Bourbon France in Comparative Perspective, GUY ROWLANDS
3:The European Fiscal-Military System and the Habsburg Monarchy, PETER H. WILSON
4:Hungarian Border Defence and the Habsburg Financial and Military Transformation in the 16th Century, ISTVÁN KENYERES AND GÉZA PÁLFFY
5:The General War Commissariat: A Neglected Pivot of the Habsburg Fiscal-Military State, THOMAS WINKELBAUER
6:Magnates and Military Contracting in Hungary after 1648, ANDRÁS OROSS
7:Fiscal-Military Exigency and Authority in 17th-Century Moravia, JI`RÍ DAVID
8:Negotiating Fiscal-Military Coordination: Provincial Tax Quotas for the Habsburg Army 1648-1748, PETR MAŤA
9:The Holy Roman Empire and the Habsburg Fiscal-Military System c. 1606-1806, PETER RAUSCHER
10:Noble Enterprisers: Regimental Proprietorship in the Habsburg Army, HORST CARL
11:Habsburg War Finance and Noble Credit-Brokerage in the Southern Netherlands under Charles VI, VERONIKA HYDEN-HANSCHO
12:The Rise of a Sustainable Public Debt in the 18th-Century Habsburg Monarchy, WILLIAM D. GODSEY
13:Conscription in the Habsburg Monarchy 1740-92, ILYA BERKOVICH
14:Free Money for War? Wartime Subsidies and the 18th-Century Habsburg Monarchy, PATRICK SWOBODA
15:The 'Business of War' in Hungary: Saltpetre Contracting during the Napoleonic Period, ORSOLYA SZAKÁLY

The Habsburg Monarchy as a Fiscal-Military State

Contours and Perspectives 1648-1815

Edited by William D. Godsey and Petr Maťa

British Academy

Proceedings of the British Academy

Author Information

Edited by William D. Godsey, Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Petr Maťa, Austrian Academy of Sciences

William D. Godsey is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His most recent book is The Sinews of Habsburg Power: Lower Austria in a Fiscal-Military State 1650-1820 (Oxford, 2018), which won the Arenberg European History Prize 2018 and the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize Honorable Mention 2019. He co-edited Das Haus Arenberg und die Habsburgermonarchie: Eine transterritoriale Adelsfamilie zwischen Fürstendienst und Eigenständigkeit (16.-20. Jahrhundert) (Regensburg, 2019). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Petr Maťa is a Research Associate at the Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Having earned his PhD at the Charles University in Prague in 2005, he began his academic career in Vienna with the Lise Meitner-Fellowship. He has lectured in history at the University of Vienna since 2008 and was EURIAS-Fellow at CEU in Budapest 2012/2013. His areas of study include the history of the provincial Estates, nobilities and administration in the early modern Habsburg Monarchy. He is a co-editor and co-author of the Verwaltungsgeschichte der Habsburgermonarchie in der Frühen Neuzeit (1500-1800) (volume 1 appeared in Vienna, 2019). He is currently preparing his Habilitationsschrift comparing the provincial diets in the Bohemian and Austrian lands for publication.

Contributors:

Ilya Berkovich / Austrian Academy of Sciences
Horst Carl / University of Giessen
Jiri David / Moravian Museum of Literature and Library of the Benedictine Abbey in Rajhrad
William D. Godsey / Austrian Academy of Sciences
Veronika Hyden-Hanscho / Austrian Academy of Sciences
István Kenyeres / Budapest City Archives
Petr Maťa / Austrian Academy of Sciences
András Oross / Austrian State Archives
Géza Pálffy / Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre for the Humanities
Peter Rauscher / University of Vienna
Guy Rowlands / University of St. Andrews
Hamish Scott / Oxford University
Patrick Swoboda / Independent Scholar
Orsolya Szakály / University of London
Peter H. Wilson / Oxford University
Thomas Winkelbauer / University of Vienna