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Project

The Dawning of the Modern State: Institutional Reform, Financial Reconstruction and the Penetration of the State in the Austrian Netherlands

This research project focuses on three consecutive plans of state reform in the eighteenth-century Southern Netherlands, which were chiefly pursued to cut government costs and to maximize tax income. The aim of the project is a better understanding of factors and actors furthering or hindering the modernization of the central governmental apparatus in the era of burgeoning Enlightenment ideas.

Date:1 Oct 2012 →  30 Nov 2020
Keywords:enlightenment, Austrian Netherlands, public finances, state formation
Disciplines:History