Constructing a fiscal-military state in eighteenth-century Spain

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Constructing a fiscal-military state in eighteenth-century Spain

Statement of responsibility

Rafael Torres Sánchez ; translated by Dave Langlois

Creator

• Torres Sánchez, Rafael

Contributor

• O'Brien, Patrick, 1932-
• Langlois, Dave

Author of introduction

• O'Brien, Patrick, 1932-

Translator

• Langlois, Dave

Subject

• Spain -- Military policy | History -- 18th century
• War finance
• Finance, Public -- Spain -- History -- 18th century
• Spain -- Politics and government -- 18th century
• Spain -- History -- 18th century

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng

Summary

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 fact during the eighteenth century, Spain's fiscal-military state was reconstructed and grew. It shows how the development of the Spanish fiscal-military state was based on different growth factors to those of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; and that with this change, most of the state's structure and its relationship with élites and taxpayers altered irrevocably. In the ceaseless search for solutions, the Spanish state applied a wide range of financial and fiscal policies to expand its empire. The research in this book is inspired by current historical discussions, and provides a new perspective on the historical debate that often compares English 'success' with continental 'failure'.--

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• Palgrave studies in the history of finance

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Dewey number

336.4609033

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illustrations

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Palgrave studies in the history of finance