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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Monetary Circulation in Louis XIV's France
- Glossary
- The Treasurers General of the Extraordinaire des Guerres: Years on Duty, 1688–1715
- General Introduction
- Part I The Strategic Management Of War And The Financial Chain Of Command
- 1 Geostrategy, International Politics, and the Burden of War, 1688–1714
- 2 The King, His Ministers, and the Direction of Financial Policy
- Part II Raising Money, Finding Money, Making Money: Sourcing Revenue In An Age Of Crisis
- 3 Taxing to the Hilt? Structural Weakness and Falling Revenues
- 4 Borrowing to the Limit
- 5 Manipulating the Coinage
- 6 Paper Money and Absolute Monarchy
- Part III The Degeneration Of Military Funding And The Rising Costs Of War
- 7 The Treasury of the Extraordinaire des Guerres in the Era of the Spanish Succession
- 8 The Crisis of Spending and Appropriations in Louis XIV's Personal Rule
- 9 The Overdraft of War: Short-Term Debt and Military Finance
- 10 Rent-Seeking in the Military Paymaster World
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
(p.247) Index
(p.247) Index
- Source:
- The Financial Decline of a Great Power
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Monetary Circulation in Louis XIV's France
- Glossary
- The Treasurers General of the Extraordinaire des Guerres: Years on Duty, 1688–1715
- General Introduction
- Part I The Strategic Management Of War And The Financial Chain Of Command
- 1 Geostrategy, International Politics, and the Burden of War, 1688–1714
- 2 The King, His Ministers, and the Direction of Financial Policy
- Part II Raising Money, Finding Money, Making Money: Sourcing Revenue In An Age Of Crisis
- 3 Taxing to the Hilt? Structural Weakness and Falling Revenues
- 4 Borrowing to the Limit
- 5 Manipulating the Coinage
- 6 Paper Money and Absolute Monarchy
- Part III The Degeneration Of Military Funding And The Rising Costs Of War
- 7 The Treasury of the Extraordinaire des Guerres in the Era of the Spanish Succession
- 8 The Crisis of Spending and Appropriations in Louis XIV's Personal Rule
- 9 The Overdraft of War: Short-Term Debt and Military Finance
- 10 Rent-Seeking in the Military Paymaster World
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
