War and the State in Early Modern Europe
Subtitle: Spain, the Dutch Republic and Sweden as Fiscal-military States, 1500-1660 (Warfare and History)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 27, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780415226455
First sentence: In the fifteenth century, European wars were fought by sovereign states as well as by various autonomous political entities.