State (De-) Formation in Practice: Bohemian Fiscal-Financial Arrangements during the War of the Spanish Succession, in Rethinking Europe: War and Peace in Early Modern German Lands, eds. Gerhild Williams, Sigrun Haude, and Christian Schneider (Leiden: Brill, 2019), 315-40

This essay focuses on the consequences of fiscal-financial arrangements during the War of the Spanish Succession. Using the example of Bohemia in the Habsburg mon- archy, I demonstrate that taxation and borrowing had integrative as well as disintegra- tive consequences, which come into view only from a perspective outside the court and when reconstructed from below the social elites. This essay’s focus on local actors and regional interlinkages offers new insights and a complementary perspective to the established field of state formation.