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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rowlands, Guy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Corby : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Temas:
1600-1715
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Comparative.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
Economic history.
France > Economic conditions > 17th century.
France > History > Louis XIV, 1643-1715.
France > Conditions économiques > 17e siècle.
France.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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