Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Speaking across Paradigms xi
5. 1 THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
6. 1 The Market for Property Rights 1
7. 2 Rivals in Modernization: Creating National Communities in France and England 14
8. 3 The Redistributive Role of the State 21
9. 2 THE LESS PRIVILEGED
10. 4 Interpreting Peasant Revolutions 61
11. 3 THE MORE PRIVILEGED
12. 5 The Political Economy of Collective Violence: What Did the "Moral Economy" of Pre-Revolutionary Europe Cost? 81
13. 6 Rent Seeking and Trade Regulation 113
14. 7 The Rise and Decline of English Mercantilism in Comparative Perspective 140
15. 4 THE VERY PRIVILEGED
16. 8 Tying the King's Hands: Credible Commitments and Royal Fiscal Policy under the Old Regime 163
17. 9 The Fiscal Origins of Democratic Revolution 179
18. 5 HYPOTHESES AND CONCLUSIONS
19. 10 Modernization, Revolution, and the State 213
20. 11 Caveat Emptor: Markets and History 241
21. Works Cited 247
22. Index 271