Contents

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION: SPEAKING ACROSS PARADIGMS

• 1—  THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
  • 1—  The Market for Property Rights
  • 2—  Rivals in Modernization  Creating National Communities in France and England
  • 3—  The Redistributive Role of the State
• 2—  THE LESS PRIVILEGED
  • 4—  Interpreting Peasant Revolutions
• 3—  THE MORE PRIVILEGED
  • 5—  The Political Economy of Collective Violence  What Did the "Moral Economy" of Pre-Revolutionary Europe Cost?
  • 6—  Rent Seeking and Trade Regulation
  • 7—  The Rise and Decline of English Mercantilism in Comparative Perspective
• 4—  THE VERY PRIVILEGED
  • 8—  Tying the King's Hands  Credible Commitments and Royal Fiscal Policy under the Old Regime
  • 9—  The Fiscal Origins of Democratic Revolution
• 5—  HYPOTHESES AND CONCLUSIONS
  • 10—  Modernization, Revolution, and the State
  • 11—  Caveat Emptor  Markets and History

• WORKS CITED