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1 online resource (303 pages) |
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Routledge Explorations in Economic History |
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Routledge explorations in economic history.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Three powers looking for resources; Spain and its eighteenth-century rivals; War and the early modern state; Method and timeframe; Chapter 1: Changing strategies and global power in the long eighteenth century; 1.1 The long consequences of Utrecht; 1.2 Warfare interests and motives; 1.3 Spain in eighteenth-century international politics; Chapter 2: Eighteenth-century realities and historiographical approaches; 2.1 Absolutism vs. Parliamentarism |
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2.2 The eighteenth-century military revolution2.3 The increasing war cost; 2.4 Fiscal-military states: the development of a methodological concept; Chapter 3: Administering the fiscal-military state: ordinary revenues -- trusting in a consumer's world; 3.1 The increase in the tax trawl; 3.2 The fiscal structure: direct or indirect taxes; 3.3 Divergent paths: the trend of the fiscal structure in the long eighteenth century; 3.4 Tobacco and metals, the pearls of the Empire; 3.5 Possibilities and flexibility of fiscal policies |
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3.6 Changes in the fiscal structure as from the eighties and the breakdown of some systemsNotes; Chapter 4: Increasing revenue through administration change: direct administration of taxes; 4.1 Direct administration vs. tax farming. Why were taxes farmed out?; 4.2 England takes the lead; 4.3 The impossible reform of the French system; 4.4 Spain facing the modernity of direct administration; 4.5 Administering to implement a new system; 4.6 A political agenda against tax farmers?; 4.7 Consequences and stocktaking; 4.8 The tax farmers' profit; 4.9 Looking to the future of finance possibilities |
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NotesChapter 5: Growing needs: the cost of war and extraordinary revenue; 5.1 The management of extraordinary expenditure; 5.2 Two different and similar models: Great Britain and France; 5.3 Spain: from the extraordinary single tax to€the€need€of€debt; Note; Chapter 6: Foreseeing difficulties and administering for the future: the public debt; 6.1 The necessary public debt; 6.2 British borrowing: the love of debt; 6.3 France, the unmanageable debt; 6.4 Spain, debt phobia; 6.5 Debt and destiny; Chapter 7: The administration of income: spending and the contractor state |
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7.1 Contractor state: a precise concept7.2 The contractor state and fiscal-military state; 7.3 Contractor state and mercantilism; 7.4 State, market and monopoly: how are supply procedures managed?; 7.5 From open market to monopoly; 7.6 The contractor state and army victualling; Note; Chapter 8: Shipbuilding, the navy and the contractor state; 8.1 Victualling the navy; 8.2 The contractor state and shipbuilding: the British experience; 8.3 The strategic worries of France; 8.4 New arrangements for supplying the Spanish navy; Notes; Chapter 9: Arms provisioning and the contractor state |
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9.1 The king's powder |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317518235 |
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1317518233 |
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