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Constructing a Fiscal Military State in Eighteenth Century Spain
Rafael Torres Sanchez
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Hardback. This book studies the growth and reconstriuction of the Spanish fiscal-military state. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 470.
Historically, Spain has often been represented as a financial failure, a state limited by its absolutist monarchy and doomed to fiscal and financial failure without hope of lasting growth. The collapse of the Spanish state at the beginning of the nineteenth century would seem to bear out this view of the limitations of Spain's absolutist state, and this historical school of thought presents the eighteenth century as the last episode in a long history of decline that is directly linked to the failure of the sixteenth-century Spanish imperial absolutist monarchy. This study provides a different perspective, suggesting that in ... Read more
Historically, Spain has often been represented as a financial failure, a state limited by its absolutist monarchy and doomed to fiscal and financial failure without hope of lasting growth. The collapse of the Spanish state at the beginning of the nineteenth century would seem to bear out this view of the limitations of Spain's absolutist state, and this historical school of thought presents the eighteenth century as the last episode in a long history of decline that is directly linked to the failure of the sixteenth-century Spanish imperial absolutist monarchy. This study provides a different perspective, suggesting that in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
253
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
Number of Pages
253
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137478658
SKU
V9781137478658
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About Rafael Torres Sanchez
Rafael Torres Sánchez (1962) is Professor of History at the Universidad de Navarra, Spain. His main study area is eighteenth-century Spanish warfare and its interconnection with the development of the state and its economy. He is the author of El precio de la guerra: El estado fiscal-militar de Carlos III, 1779-1783, Marcial Pons, Madrid (2013); La llave de ... Read more
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