Table of Contents

1. War, taxation and the English economy in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries Edward Miller, Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University; 2. Taxation for war and peace in early-Tudor England G. R. Elton, Professor of English Constitutional History and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University; 3. War and economic change: the economic costs of Dutch Revolt Geoffrey Parker, Lecturer in History, St. Andrews University; 4. Swords and Ploughshares: the armed forces, medicine and public health in the late eighteenth century Peter Mathias, Chichele Professor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University; 5. War and industrialisation Phyllis Deane, Reader in Economic History and Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge University; 6. The exigencies of war and the politics of taxation in the Netherlands 1795–1810 Simon Schama, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge University; 7. War and the failure of industrial mobilisation: 1899 and 1914 Clive Trebilcock, Lecturer in History and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge University; 8. War and economic development: government and the optical industry in Britain, 1914–18 Roy and Kay Mcleod, History and Social Studies of Science, Sussex University; 9. War demand and industrial supply: the 'Dope Scandal', 1915–19 D. C. Coleman, Professor of Economic History and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge University; 10. Administrators and agriculture: aspects of German agricultural policy in the First World War Joe Lee, Professor of Modern History, University College, Cork; 11. Social planning in war-time: some aspects of the Beveridge Report José Harris, Lecturer in Social Science and Administration, the London School of Economics.

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This book of essays is a collective treatment of the problem of the impact of war on economic development in Europe.