The financial decline of a great power : war, influence, and money in Louis XIV's France
The financial humbling of a great power in any age demands explanation. In the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14) Louis XIV's France had to fight way beyond its borders and the costs of war rose to unprecedented heights. With royal income falling as economic activity slowed down, the widen...
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| Sprache: | English |
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Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press,
2012
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| Ausgabe: | 1. ed., 1. impr. |
| Schlagworte: | Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714 Frankreich Finanzwirtschaft Geschichte 1643-1715 Ludwig Geschichte |
| Umfang: | XVII, 267 S. |
Inhaltsangabe:
- The strategic management of war and the financial chain of command. Geostrategy, international politics, and the burden of war, 1688-1714 ; The King, his ministers, and the direction of financial policyRaising money, finding money, making money: sourcing revenue in an age of crisis. Taxing to the hilt?: structural weakness and falling revenue ; Borrowing to the limit ; Manipulating the coinage ; Paper money and absolute monarchy
- The degeneration of military funding and the rising costs of war. The treasury of extraordinaire des guerres in the era of the Spanish succession ; The crisis of spending and appropriations in Louis XIV's personal rule ; The overdraft of war: short-term debt and military finance ; Rent-seeking in the military paymaster world.
- The strategic management of war and the financial chain of command. Geostrategy, international politics, and the burden of war, 1688-1714 ; The King, his ministers, and the direction of financial policy
- Raising money, finding money, making money: sourcing revenue in an age of crisis. Taxing to the hilt?: structural weakness and falling revenue ; Borrowing to the limit ; Manipulating the coinage ; Paper money and absolute monarchy
- The degeneration of military funding and the rising costs of war. The treasury of extraordinaire des guerres in the era of the Spanish succession ; The crisis of spending and appropriations in Louis XIV's personal rule ; The overdraft of war: short-term debt and military finance ; Rent-seeking in the military paymaster world.