Jerome Greenfield

The Making of a Fiscal-Military State in Post-Revolutionary France

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Produktbeschreibung

Draws together economic, political and diplomatic history to explain how the French state and its fiscal system were transformed in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789. These changes lasted for the rest of the nineteenth century, and underpinned the development of the economic interventionism for which the French state became notorious.

Produktdetails

• New Studies in European History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781108839679
• ISBN-10: 1108839673
• Artikelnr.: 64037490

Autorenporträt

Jerome Greenfield was awarded his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at King's College London (2017-2020). His articles have been published in numerous journals, including the English Historical Review, the Historical Journal, French Historical Studies, French History, Histoire, Économie et Société and the International History Review.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
1. The nineteenth-century French state and its rivals
2. The revolutionary quest for fiscal stability, 1789-1799
3. Developing a post-revolutionary fiscal politics, 1799-1814
4. Recasting the fiscal-military system, 1814-1821
5. The resurgence of French power, 1821-1830
6. The 1830 Revolution and the limits of fiscal reform
7. The Ascent of the interventionist Orleanist state, 1830-1848
8. The rise and fall of austerity, 1848-1856
9. Reaching the limits of the fiscal-military system, 1856-1871
10. The triumph of the notables
Bibliography
Index.