1. Introduction: the rise of the fiscal state in Eurasia from a global, comparative and transnational perspective BARTOLOMÉ Yun-Casalilla; Part I. North Atlantic Europe: 2. Long-term trends in the fiscal history of the Netherlands, 1515-1913 Wantje Fritschy, MARJOLEIN 't Hart and Edwin Horlings; 3. Taxation in the Habsburg Low Countries and Belgium, 1579-1914 Paul Janssens; 4. The rise of the fiscal state in France, 1500-1914 Richard Bonney; 5. The politics of British taxation, from the Glorious Revolution to the Great War Martin Daunton; Part II. Central and Eastern Europe: 6. Finances and power in the German state system Michael North; 7. Financing an empire: the Austrian composite monarchy, 1650-1848 Renate Pieper; 8. The Russian fiscal state, 1600-1914 Peter Gatrell; Part III. South Atlantic Europe and the Mediterranean: 9. From pioneer mercantile state to ordinary fiscal state: Portugal, 1498-1914 EUGENIA MATA; 10. Spain: from composite monarchy to nation state, 1492-1914. An exceptional case? FRANCISCO Comín Comín and Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla; 11. Republics and principalities in Italy Luciano Pezzolo; 12. The formation of fiscal states in Italy: the Papal States Fausto Piola Caselli; 13. The evolution of fiscal institutions in the Ottoman empire, 1500-1914 ¿evket Pamuk; Part IV. Asia: 14. Continuation and efficiency of the Chinese fiscal state, 700 BC-1911 AD Kent Deng; 15. Taxation and good governance in China, 1500-1914 R. Bin Wong; 16. The rise of a Japanese fiscal state Masaki Nakabayashi; 17. Fiscal states in Mughal and British India John F. Richards; 18. Afterword: reflexions on fiscal foundations and contexts for the formation of economically effective Eurasian states from the rise of Venice to the Opium War Patrick K. O'Brien.