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The financial decline of a great power : war, influence, and money in Louis XIV's France / Guy Rowlands.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rowlands, Guy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (286 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The financial humbling of a great power in any age demands explanation. In the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14) Louis XIV's France had to fight way beyond its borders and the costs of war rose to unprecedented heights. With royal income falling as economic activity slowed down.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The strategic management of war and the financial chain of command
- pt. 2. Raising money, finding money, making money : sourcing revenue in an age of crisis
- pt. 3. The degeneration of military funding and the rising costs of war.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 31, 2012).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-163694-0
- 1-283-63947-5
- OCLC:
- 812323002
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