Financial Systems in 18th Century Europe
Agustín González Enciso, Full Professor of Modern History at the University of Navarra, reviews the financial, fiscal and public debt issues throughout the 18th century.
What was the "financial revolution"? How and who paid for the wars in the 18th century? Was public debt the cause of the French Revolution? These and other questions are answered in this book, which reviews financial (colonial trading companies, stocks, bills of exchange, state banks), fiscal and public debt issues in the long 18th century. From the financial follies of Amsterdam in 1680, to the creation of the Bank of France in 1800, through the East India companies or the suppression of tax leases in Spain.
This book, aimed especially at students of history and those interested in economic history, synthesizes and relates foundational issues of financial capitalism in connection with the growing military and colonial conflicts.
Also, sample the evolution of finance in an era core topic to understand the origins of the contemporary world.