LEADER 04273nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910459929503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-5914-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801459146 035 $a(CKB)2670000000080957 035 $a(OCoLC)726824242 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10457602 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3137981 035 $a(OCoLC)966854687 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51800 035 $a(DE-B1597)478439 035 $a(OCoLC)979968107 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801459146 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3137981 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10457602 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000080957 100 $a20090327d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWar, revenue, and state building$b[electronic resource] $efinancing the development of the American state /$fSheldon D. Pollack 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (336 p.) 225 0 $aCornell paperbacks 311 $a0-8014-4792-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. The State: Coercion and Tribute -- $t2. War and the Development of the European State -- $t3. The Rise of the Social Welfare State in Europe -- $t4. Origins of the American State -- $t5. State Formation in the Early Republic -- $t6. Reconstituting the American State -- $t7. War and the Development of the American State -- $t8. Financing the Modern American State -- $tConclusion -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn a relatively short time, the American state developed from a weak, highly decentralized confederation composed of thirteen former English colonies into the foremost global superpower. This remarkable institutional transformation would not have been possible without the revenue raised by a particularly efficient system of public finance, first crafted during the Civil War and then resurrected and perfected in the early twentieth century. That revenue financed America's participation in two global wars as well as the building of a modern system of social welfare programs.Sheldon D. Pollack shows how war, revenue, and institutional development are inextricably linked, no less in the United States than in Europe and in the developing states of the Third World. He delineates the mechanisms of political development and reveals to us the ways in which the United States, too, once was and still may be a "developing nation." Without revenue, states cannot maintain political institutions, undergo development, or exert sovereignty over their territory. Rulers and their functionaries wield the coercive powers of the state to extract that revenue from the population under their control. From this perspective, the state is seen as a highly efficient machine for extracting societal revenue that is used by the state to sustain itself.War, Revenue, and State Building traces the sources of public revenue available to the American state at specific junctures of its history (in particular, during times of war), the revenue strategies pursued by its political leaders in response to these factors, and the consequential impact of those strategies on the development of the American state. 410 0$aCornell paperbacks. 606 $aRevenue$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aRevenue$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aFinance, Public$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aFinance, Public$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aWar$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aWar$xEconomic aspects$zEurope$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRevenue$xHistory. 615 0$aRevenue$xHistory. 615 0$aFinance, Public$xHistory. 615 0$aFinance, Public$xHistory. 615 0$aWar$xEconomic aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aWar$xEconomic aspects$xHistory. 676 $a336.02/73 700 $aPollack$b Sheldon David$01049160 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459929503321 996 $aWar, revenue, and state building$92477934 997 $aUNINA