The Seven Years War and the Old Regime in France (eBook)

The Economic and Financial Toll

James C. Riley (Autor)

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2014
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5825-5 (ISBN)

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Taking French participation in the Seven Years War as a case study, this book examines the effects of war on the economy and on government finance, finding that the economic toll has usually been exaggerated and the financial toll seriously underestimated.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: amortization • Ancien Régime • Annuity • Archives nationales (France) • Arrears • assassination • Aujourd'hui • Bankruptcy • Battle of Rossbach • Bond Market • curtailment • debt • debt service • declaration of war • Deflation • De la Cour • Demobilization • demurrage • Depreciation • despotism • Early Modern Europe • Economics • Economy of France • Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie • Ernest Labrousse • Estates General (France) • Exhaustion • Expense • Fernand Braudel • Finance • Financial Crisis • Financial Distress • Fiscal conservatism • France in the Seven Years' War • Frederick the Great • French army • French Market • French Riviera • French West Indies • Fronde • Gallicanism • Government Debt • Grenoble • High-yield debt • income • Inflation • insurance • Interest Rate • Jacques Necker • Jean Calas • Jean-Christophe • life annuity • Livre tournois • london library • Loss leader • Louisiana Territory • Louis XIV of France • Madame de Pompadour • Monetarist Theory • Montesquieu • New France • New Laws • on war • parlement • Parlement of Brittany • Philip Mirowski • Physiocracy • Politique • price change • Privateer • prussia • Real estate appraisal • Recession • Religious War • Richard Cantillon • Royal Navy • Seigneur • Seigniorage • Series 6 • Seven Years' War • Ship of the line • South Sea Company • Sovereign court • Subsistence crisis • Taille • Tax • Taxation in France • tax avoidance • Tax Collector • Tax Reform • The Financial Revolution • The Fortune of War • Total War • Unemployment • war • War chest • war effort • warfare • World War II • write-off
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5825-9 / 1400858259
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5825-5 / 9781400858255