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ROUTLEDGE LIBARY EDITIONS: HISTORICAL SECURITY

Volume 11

WAR AND STATE MAKING

WAR AND STATE MAKING

The Shaping of the Global Powers

KAREN A. RASLER AND
WILLIAM R. THOMPSON

First published in 1989 by Unwin Hyman, Inc.

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WAR AND STATE MAKING

The Shaping of the Global Powers

Karen A. Rasler
William R. Thompson

Studies in International Conflict,
Volume II

1989 by Unwin Hyman, Inc.

This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. No reproduction without permission. All rights reserved.

Unwin Hyman, Inc.

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Port Nicholson Press Ltd,

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First published in 1989

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rasler, Karen A., 1952

War and state making: the shaping of the global powers/

Karen A. Rasler, William R. Thompson.

p. cm.(Studies in international conflict; v. 2)

Bibliography: p.

Includes index.

ISBN 0-04-445097-4

1. WarEconomic aspects. 2. Geopolitics. 3. State The.

I. Thompson, William R. II. Title. III. Series.

HB195.R36 1989 88-26986

303.485dc19 CIP

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Rasler, Karen A.

War and statemaking: the shaping of the global powers (Studies in international conflict; 2)

1. War. International political aspects

I. Title II. Thompson, William R. III. Series

355.02

ISBN 0-04-445097-4

Typeset in 10 on 12 point Garamond by Fotographics (Bedford) Ltd and printed in Great Britain by The University Press, Cambridge

To our parents, who all benefited from
the last global war as did we

Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

Preface

2 The Geopolitical-Economic Context: Rokkan and the Spanish Case

3 The Geopolitical-Economic Context: France and the Maritime Powers

4 The Innovation of Public Debt

Appendix to Chapter 4

5 Spending, Death, and Taxes in the Long Run

6 War and the Economic Growth Question

7 Accommodation and Violence

8 War Making and the State

References

Index

2.1 An Outline of Rokkans Model of State Formation, Nation Building, and Mass Politics in Europe

2.2 Foxs Societal Dichotomy

2.3 Years of Warfare by Century, 1100 to 1600

2.4 Castilian/Spanish Warfare, 1100 to 1600

2.5 Portuguese Warfare, 1100 to 1500

2.6 Aragonese Warfare, 1100 to 1500

3.1 English and French Warfare, 1100 to 1600

3.2 West European Army Sizes

3.3 Population in Western Europe

4.1 A Sampling of War Expenses in the Sixteenth Century

4.2 Spanish Royal Debt Information, 15041713

4.3 Growth of the French Public Debt, 15221944

4.4 The Role of Loans in British Wartime Expenditure, 16881815

4.5 A Conservative Estimate of War Impacts on Real National Debt

4.6 Impacts of Global and Interstate Wars on British and U.S. National Debt

4.7 Impacts of Global Wars on British and U.S. National Debt

4.8 British Ships of the Line, 17151860

5.1 English State Revenues, 11551720

5.2 Castilian/Spanish Revenues, 14061788

5.3 French Revenues and Expenditures, 12501830

5.4 General Increases in French Expenditures

5.5 Interstate and Global Wars Examined

5.6 The Impact of War on Logged Expenditures/GNP and Tax Revenues/GNP

5.7 British Expenditures, GNP, and Expenditures/GNP

5.8 The Impact of War on Logged Military and Nonmilitary Expenditures/GNP

5.9 Selected Data on Nonmilitary and Nonwar Expenditures as a Percentage of GNP

6.1 The Economic Impact of War: Wheelers Findings for Global Powers

6.2 The Stability of Gross Domestic Product per Capita Rankings

6.3 Interstate and Global Wars Examined for Their Impact on Economic Growth

6.4 The Impact of Interstate Wars on Economic Growth

6.5 The Impact of Global Wars on Economic Growth

6.6 A Summary Comparison of Two Recent Sets of Findings on the Economic Impact of World Wars

7.1 The Impact of War on U.S. Domestic Violence, 18901970

7.2 The Impact of Postwar Demobilization on U.S. Domestic Violence, 18901970

7.3 A Comparison of the Average Magnitude of Prosystem Initiated Violence during War and Nonwar Years

7.4 U.S. Governmental Accommodation and the Linkages between War and Domestic Violence

8.1 Global War Battle Deaths

8.2 Permanent and Relatively Permanent Global War Impacts

2.1 A Conceptual Map of Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Western Europe

2.2 Annual Average Royal Treasure Imports and Military Expenditures in the Netherlands

3.1 The Geopolitical Economy of Preindustrial Continental Orientations and State Making

4.1 British Public Debt, 16911985

4.2 United States Public Debt, 17921985

4.3 Debt as a Proportion of GNP, 17011985

4.4 British Budgetary Priorities, 16931965

4.5 Models of Intervention and Impact

5.1 Clean and Messy Staircases

5.2 English Revenues, 11661720

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