Fiscal Limits of Absolutism
Author : James B. Collins
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Despotism
ISBN :
Author : James B. Collins
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Despotism
ISBN :
Author : Richard Bonney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This selection of articles is organized around three broad themes: the nature of the governing system in France ('Absolutism'); the political crisis of the mid-17th-century (the 'Fronde'); and the development of royal finance. The author first considers the growth of the French state in its ideological and institutional aspects, then the opposition such developments provoked, much centred on the figure of Cardinal Mazarin. In the last section particular attention is given to fiscal history, including a comparison of mid-18th-century France with the other states of Europe. Professor Bonney would argue that the 'fiscal imperative', the increased requirements posed by the costs of war, and the long-term consequences of fiscal growth may be seen as one of the decisive factors in the development of the modern state.
Author : Richard Bonney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1040242774
This selection of articles is organized around three broad themes: the nature of the governing system in France (’Absolutism’); the political crisis of the mid-17th-century (the ’Fronde’); and the development of royal finance. The author first considers the growth of the French state in its ideological and institutional aspects, then the opposition such developments provoked, much centred on the figure of Cardinal Mazarin. In the last section particular attention is given to fiscal history, including a comparison of mid-18th-century France with the other states of Europe. Professor Bonney would argue that the ’fiscal imperative’, the increased requirements posed by the costs of war, and the long-term consequences of fiscal growth may be seen as one of the decisive factors in the development of the modern state.
Author : Philip T. Hoffman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 2002-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804741927
These essays focus on the growth of representative institutions and the mechanics of European state finance from the end of the Middle Ages to the French Revolution.
Author : Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107013518
Leading economic historians present a groundbreaking series of country case studies exploring the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia.
Author : Thomas Ertman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 26,77 MB
Release : 1997-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521484275
Ertman presents a new theory to explain the variation in political regimes and state infrastructures in pre-French Revolution Europe.
Author : John Shovlin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 32,21 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801474187
'The Political Economy of Virtue' offers an interpretation of political economy in the second half of the 18th century. It covers the key turning points in the development of French political economy.
Author : J. Russell Major
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 1997-05-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801856310
Evans (classics, U. of British Columbia) examines the history of the great emperor, whose reign marks the transition between Late Antiquity and the Byzantine period, including what is presently known about his life, the social structure of the empire, its relations with its neighbors, and naturally, its wars. It also examines theological issues, which split the empire and left deep divisions after Justinian's death. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author : Albert N. Hamscher
Publisher : University of Delaware
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 35,50 MB
Release : 2012-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1611493757
The Royal Financial Administration and the Prosecution of Crime in France, 1670–1789 explores the French monarchy’s role in financing criminal prosecutions in the royal courts of the realm—the payment of criminal frais de justice in the vocabulary of the ancien régime—between 1670 and 1789 (that is, from the codification of criminal judicial procedure in the early period of Louis XIV’s personal rule to the outbreak of the French Revolution). The subject brings together three areas of scholarly inquiry—criminal justice, royal administration, and the management of the crown’s finances. A central goal of the study is to provide factual information and interpretive insights on each of these topics and to explain the relationship of each to the others over a long time period. The book contributes to existing scholarship in four ways. First, although each of the major dimensions of the inquiry—the operation of the criminal justice system, the conduct of the royal administration, and the management of the monarchy’s finances—has a large and increasingly sophisticated historical literature, this is the first study to combine them in a systematic way. Second, the long time period covered in the book not only enables the historian to distinguish gradual from rapid change, but it also allows the reader to view how the system functioned in different historical contexts. Third, the study is based on archival sources throughout France. This comprehensive approach permits the identification of elements of a common experience without sacrificing attention to important aspects of regional diversity. Finally, with respect to the sources themselves, the range is broad, encompassing regulatory acts and decisions of the king’s councils; administrative correspondence at the central, regional, and in some cases local levels; financial accounts and related papers; and court records from the major appellate courts and from several lower courts as well. An appendix of 33 tables lists figures of annual expenditure and other pertinent financial operations for each of the major financial districts of the kingdom.
Author : Stephen Miller
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 081321517X
Continuing where William Beik's pathbreaking seventeenth-century study ends, this book sheds new light on the origins of the French Revolution and the social and political developments thereafter.