Guy Rowlands is Director of the Centre for French History and Culture and a Lecturer in the School of History at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV. Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661-1701 (2002), shich was co-winner of the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Prize (2003). Prior to his appointment at St Andrews he held teaching and research positions at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol, and Durham. His research interests span western European history between 1660 and 1800, with particular focus upon politics, war, and finance. He has been a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2007-08) and a Senior Research Fellow of the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust (2010-11).
Inhaltsangabe
* General Introduction * Part I: The strategic management of war and the financial chain of command * Introduction * 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 * Introduction * 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 * Introduction * 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
* General Introduction * Part I: The strategic management of war and the financial chain of command * Introduction * 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 * Introduction * 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 * Introduction * 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
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