The Routledge Economic History of War presents a broad overview of the latest research on the long-lasting changes and effects that collapsing security in international relations has had on the worlds economies and societies.
Arranged around five key themes - Fiscal and Military Capacity, Military Spending, Economic Effects of War, War and Institutions, and Business and War - this handbook features contributions from an international range of scholars, on varying methodological approaches, theories, and geographical arenas. Encompassing a range of disciplinary approaches, the main focus is on how economic history can provide insights into the societal impact of war, addressing issues such as how war preparations and arms races affect government spending, the direct economic effects of war, and how societies adjust to the economic realities of rearmament and recovery. This volume also explores whether wars change or alter institutions such as governments, religion, and democracy. It also looks at what lessons we can learn from the past about military spending, state capacity, and the effects of war on both individual societies and global cooperation.
Ultimately, this book provides a broad overview of the methodological, geographical, and multidisciplinary range of the economic history of war and demonstrates how war, economics, institutions, and society are inextricably linked throughout history.
Introduction: Why Study the Economic History of War?
Jari Eloranta, Jeremy Land, Elina Kuorelahti, and Price Fishback
PART 1 Fiscal, Military, and Monetary Capacity
1 War and Finance in the Early Modern Era: A Eurasian Overview
Luciano Pezzolo
2 Successes and Failures of Iberian Fiscal-Military States in the Long Run, c. 1640-1820
Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez
3 Early Modern Trade and Naval Competition - England and Scandinavia from Westphalia to Vienna
Henric Häggqvist and Jeremy Land
4 Colonial Armies and the World Wars
Leigh Gardner and Tirthankar Roy
5 Financing Americas Wars: Theory, Practice, and Lessons
Hugh Rockoff
PART 2 Wars and Institutions
6 Mobilizing Resources for War by Economic Expansion: Contrasting Economic Visions
David Mitch
7 Marriage between Warfare and Religion? State Capacity and the Church in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe
Henri Aaltonen, Jari Eloranta, and Jyrki Knuutila
8 War Inflation and Taxation
Oriol Sabaté and Sara Torregrosa-Hetland
9 League of Nations and Interwar Security Framework
Elina Kuorelahti, Madeleine Dungy, and Jari Eloranta
PART 3 Economic Warfare
10 Economic Warfare: Lessons from the Two World Wars
Mark Harrison
11 How the First World War Globalized Economic Warfare
Phillip Dehne
12 Dreams of Empire: War, Economics, and Imperialism in the Twentieth Century
Roger L. Ransom
13 The China Campaign Committee in Britain: Boycotts and the Effort to Help the Chinese Population, 1938-45
Mark J. Crowley
PART 4 Business and War
14 Commerce during Conflict: Business and War in Early Modern Europe
Siobhan Talbott
15 Contractors to Companies, Inventors to Industries: The Rise of Private Armaments Manufacturing, 1815-1914
Christopher W. Miller, Benjamin Turnbull, and Jari Ojala
16 Planning Mass Production of Merchant Ships in Japan during the Pacific War
Tetsuji Okazaki
17 Propaganda as Defense: The Origins and Development of the War Information Service
Erik Lakomaa
18 Debunking the Myth: War Does Not Necessarily Mean Business Success
Eric Golson
PART 5 Economic Effects of War
19 Economic Mobilization and Command Economies in Germany and Russia during the First World War
Pavel Osinsky
20 The Human Capital of American Service Personnel in and after War
Ahmed S. Rahman
21 Wars and the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities in the United States
Andreas Ferrara
22 Conflict and Inequality: A Survey and Empirical Applications to Finland
Jaakko Meriläinen, Matti Mitrunen, and Tuomo Virkola
23 The Economic Impact of World War II in America: Multipliers, Productivity, and Sacrifice While Producing Massive Amounts of Munitions
Price V. Fishback
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