Economic History of Warfare and State Formation

Editors: Jari Eloranta, Eric Golson, Andrei Markevich, Nikolaus Wolf



Presents an interdisciplinary study of warfare and economic history and of the formation of states

Features top scholars in the field of economic history, economics, and political science

Furnishes a multifaceted study of state formations and conflicts, democracies and dictatorships, and twentieth-century total wars

This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections of war, state formation, and political economy, i.e., how conflicts have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies. The contributors come from different fields of social and human sciencies, all featuring an interdisciplinary approach to the study of societal development. The types of big issues analyzed in this volume include the formation of European and non-European states in the early modern and modern period, the emergence of various forms of states and eventually modern democracies with extensive welfare states, the violent upheavals that influenced these processes, the persistence of dictatorships and non-democratic forms of government, and the arrival of total war and its consequences, especially in the context of twentieth-century world wars. One of the key themes is the dichotomy between democracies and dictatorships; namely, what were the origins of their emergence and evolution, why did some revolutions succeed and other fail, and why did democracies, on the whole, emerge victorious in the twentieth-century age of total wars? The contributions in this book are written with academic and non-academic audiences in mind, and both will find the broad themes discussed in this volume intuitive and useful.

Table of contents
Front Matter
Pages i-xxii

Wars and State Formation in the Short and Long Run
Front Matter
Pages 1-1
Paths to Inclusive Political Institutions
Pages 3-50
States and Development: Early Modern India, China, and the Great Divergence
Pages 51-69

Political Economy of Democracies and Dictatorships
Front Matter
Pages 71-71
Decentralization, Fiscal Structure, and Local State Capacity in Late-Imperial Russia
Pages 73-101
Historicizing Divergence: A Comparative Analysis of the Revolutionary Crises in Russia and Finland
Pages 103-116
Repressions and Punishment Under Stalin: Evidence from the Soviet Archives
Pages 117-132

Economic History of the World Wars
Front Matter
Pages 135-158
Myths of the Great War
Pages 133-133
War and Inflation in the United States from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf War
Pages 159-195
Lessons Learned? British Mobilization for the Two World Wars
Pages 197-219
World War II and US Economic Performance
Pages 221-241
The Mirage of the German Armament Miracle in World War II
Pages 243-258
Neutrality in War
Pages 259-278

Back Matter
Pages 279-283

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