ABSTRACT
Spain, like Great Britain and France, was a fiscal-military state, albeit each with a different structure and degree of development. The three of them sought to boost their revenue in order to be able to take on wars as the government’s normal task, almost an obligation, with some guarantee of success; all of them adjusted their administrative structures in different ways pushed by the inevitability of war and the need of sustaining it. First and foremost, therefore, the three sought to increase their revenue. That said, the problems they encountered on the way were different and the overall managerial results too. Why was this?
