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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Introduction
Representation, Scale, and Control
The Evolution and Importance of Public Credit
Representative Assemblies in City-States and Territorial States
Geographic Scale and Merchant Power
Broad Sample Evidence
Origins of City-States
Case Study Evidence
Plan of the Book
Chapter Two: The Evolution and Importance of Public Credit
Why Credit was Important
When did States First Borrow Long-Term?
The Cost of Borrowing
Economic Explanations for the City-State Advantage
Summary
Chapter Three: Representative Assemblies in Europe, 1250–1750
Origins of Representative Assemblies
Prerogatives of Representative Assemblies
Who was Represented?
The Intensity of Representation
Summary
Chapter Four: Assessing the City-State Advantage
Representation and Credit as an Equilibrium
Representative Institutions and the Creation of a Public Debt
Representative Institutions and the Cost of Borrowing
Variation within City-States
Summary
Chapter Five: Origins of City-States
The Rokkan/Tilly Hypothesis
The Carolingian Partition Hypothesis
Empirical Evidence
Reassessing the City-State Advantage
Summary
Chapter Six: Three City-State Experiences
Merchant Oligarchy in Cologne
Genoa and the Casa di San Giorgio
Siena under the Rule of the Nine
Summary
Chapter Seven: Three Territorial State Experiences
France and the Rentes sur l’Hôtel de Ville
Revisiting Absolutism in Castile
Accounting for Holland’s Financial Revolution
Summary
Chapter Eight: Implications for State Formation and Development
The Debate on War and State Formation
Information, Commitment, and Democracy
Understanding Early Modern Growth
Bibliography
Index
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