The Making of a Fiscal-Military State in Post-Revolutionary France
Part of New Studies in European History
- Author: Jerome Greenfield
- Date Published: September 2022
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108839679
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Drawing on a wide range of archival and published documents, this book explains how the French Revolution of 1789 transformed the French state and its fiscal system, and how further reforms in the nineteenth century created a durable, post-revolutionary state. Instead of presenting the nineteenth-century French state as primarily the creation of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era, as most scholars have done, Jerome Greenfield emphasises the importance of counter-revolution after 1815 in establishing a stable, durable state, capable of surviving revolutions in 1830 and 1848 intact. The years 1815–1870 thus marked a crucial period in the development of the French state, not least in stimulating the economic interventionism for which it become notorious and facilitating the resurgence of France as a great power after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.
Read more- Integrates economic and financial history into the ongoing revision of nineteenth-century French political history
- Presents a clear chronological structure, which allows readers quickly to locate events or phenomena that concern them
- Engages with scholarship from other social sciences to provide greater analytical depth
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'Jerome Greenfield's study provides a lucid account of the ways in which France created a resilient modern fiscal state, while successive regimes struggled in their attempts to establish a stable political system in the aftermath of French Revolution.' Joel Felix, University of Reading
See more reviews'This is an important book, one that needs to be read by all those working on the evolution of the European state. It is a thoroughly researched study, a genuine work of history.' Samuel Clark, European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire
'A standard work on the history of public finance in France.' Friedemann Pestel, H-Soz-Kult
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- Date Published: September 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108839679
- length: 300 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.63kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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
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