Privilege And The Politics Of Taxation In Eighteenth Century France
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Author |
: Michael Kwass |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 376 |
Release |
: 2006-11-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521030196 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521030199 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France by : Michael Kwass
Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France, first published in 2000, offers a lucid interpretation of the Ancien Régime and the origins of the French Revolution. It examines what was arguably the most ambitious project of the eighteenth-century French monarchy: the attempt to impose direct taxes on formerly tax-exempt privileged elites. Connecting the social history of the state to the study of political culture, Michael Kwass describes how the crown refashioned its institutions and ideology to impose new forms of taxation on the privileged. Drawing on impressive primary research from national and provincial archives, Kwass demonstrates that the levy of these taxes, which struck elites with some force, not only altered the relationship between monarchy and social hierarchy, but also transformed political language and attitudes in the decades before the French Revolution. Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France sheds light on French history during this crucial period.
Author |
: Michael Kwass |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2022-02-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521198707 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521198704 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Consumer Revolution, 1650–1800 by : Michael Kwass
A bold new interpretation of 'consumer revolution' in 18th-century Europe, examining globalization and the politics of consumption in the age of Revolution.
Author |
: Gail Bossenga |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2002-05-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521893720 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521893725 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Politics of Privilege by : Gail Bossenga
This study analyzes the political and fiscal origins of the French Revolution by looking at the relationship between the royal government and privileged, corporate bodies at local level. Utilizing a neo-Tocquevillian approach, it argues that the monarchy undermined its own attempts at reform by extending central authority, while at the same time it continued to rely upon corporate structures and monopolies to finance the state. The unresolvable, institutional conflicts had the effect of politicising members of the privileged elite and eventually led many of them to embrace a rhetoric of citizenship, accountability, and civic equality that had far-reaching and unanticipated consequences. When Lille's bourgeoisie consolidated a municipal revolution in 1789, they followed a programme that was politically liberal, but economically conservative. Arranged as a series of case-studies, the book illuminates the structure of political power in the Flemish provincial estates, the growth of royal taxation, the problem of municipal credit, the role of venal officeholders, and the relationship of the revolutionary bourgeoisie to monopolies of the guilds.
Author |
: Paul Cheney |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2010-03-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674047265 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674047266 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Revolutionary Commerce by : Paul Cheney
Combining the intellectual history of the Enlightenment, Atlantic history, and the history of the French Revolution, Paul Cheney explores the political economy of globalization in eighteenth-century France. The discovery of the New World and the rise of Europe's Atlantic economy brought unprecedented wealth. It also reordered the political balance among European states and threatened age-old social hierarchies within them. In this charged context, the French developed a "science of commerce" that aimed to benefit from this new wealth while containing its revolutionary effects. Montesquieu became a towering authority among reformist economic and political thinkers by developing a politics of fusion intended to reconcile France's aristocratic society and monarchical state with the needs and risks of international commerce. The Seven Years' War proved the weakness of this model, and after this watershed reforms that could guarantee shared prosperity at home and in the colonies remained elusive. Once the Revolution broke out in 1789, the contradictions that attended the growth of France's Atlantic economy helped to bring down the constitutional monarchy. Drawing upon the writings of philosophes, diplomats, consuls of commerce, and merchants, Cheney rewrites the history of political economy in the Enlightenment era and provides a new interpretation of the relationship between capitalism and the French Revolution.
Author |
: William H. Sewell Jr. |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 421 |
Release |
: 2021-04-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226770468 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022677046X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Capitalism and the Emergence of Civic Equality in Eighteenth-Century France by : William H. Sewell Jr.
"William H. Sewell, Jr. turns to the experience of commercial capitalism to show how the commodity form abstracted social relations. The increased independence, flexibility, and anonymity of market relations made equality between citizens not only conceivable but attractive. Commercial capitalism thus found its way into the interstices of this otherwise rigidly hierarchical society, coloring social relations and paving the way for the establishment of civic equality"--
Author |
: Anoush Fraser Terjanian |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107005648 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107005647 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Commerce and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought by : Anoush Fraser Terjanian
This book uncovers the ambivalence towards commerce in eighteenth-century France, questioning the assumption that commerce was widely celebrated in the era of Adam Smith.
Author |
: Mary Dewhurst Lewis |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804757224 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804757225 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Boundaries of the Republic by : Mary Dewhurst Lewis
In this first comprehensive history of immigrant inequality in France, Mary D. Lewis chronicles the conflicts arising from mass immigration between the First and Second World Wars, the uneven rights arrangements that emerged during this time, and their legacy for contemporary France.
Author |
: Jeff Horn |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 396 |
Release |
: 2008-08-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780262263122 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0262263122 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Path Not Taken by : Jeff Horn
In The Path Not Taken, Jeff Horn argues that—contrary to standard, Anglocentric accounts—French industrialization was not a failed imitation of the laissez-faire British model but the product of a distinctive industrial policy that led, over the long term, to prosperity comparable to Britain's. Despite the upheavals of the Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, France developed and maintained its own industrial strengths. France was then able to take full advantage of the new technologies and industries that emerged in the "second industrial revolution," and by the end of the nineteenth century some of France's industries were outperforming Britain's handily. The Path Not Taken shows that the foundations of this success were laid during the first industrial revolution. Horn posits that the French state's early attempt to emulate Britain's style of industrial development foundered because of revolutionary politics. The "threat from below" made it impossible for the state or entrepreneurs to control and exploit laborers in the British manner. The French used different means to manage labor unruliness and encourage innovation and entrepreneurialism. Technology is at the heart of Horn's analysis, and he shows that France, unlike England, often preferred still-profitable older methods of production in order to maintain employment and forestall revolution. Horn examines the institutional framework established by Napoleon's most important Minister of the Interior, Jean-Antoine Chaptal. He focuses on textiles, chemicals, and steel, looks at how these new institutions created a new industrial environment. Horn's illuminating comparison of French and British industrialization should stir debate among historians, economists, and political scientists.
Author |
: Kenneth Scheve |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2017-11-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691178295 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691178291 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Taxing the Rich by : Kenneth Scheve
A groundbreaking history of why governments do—and don't—tax the rich In today's social climate of acknowledged and growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? In this wide-ranging and provocative book, Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage ask when and why countries tax their wealthiest citizens—and their answers may surprise you. Taxing the Rich draws on unparalleled evidence from twenty countries over the last two centuries to provide the broadest and most in-depth history of progressive taxation available. Scheve and Stasavage explore the intellectual and political debates surrounding the taxation of the wealthy while also providing the most detailed examination to date of when taxes have been levied against the rich and when they haven't. Fairness in debates about taxing the rich has depended on different views of what it means to treat people as equals and whether taxing the rich advances or undermines this norm. Scheve and Stasavage argue that governments don't tax the rich just because inequality is high or rising—they do it when people believe that such taxes compensate for the state unfairly privileging the wealthy. Progressive taxation saw its heyday in the twentieth century, when compensatory arguments for taxing the rich focused on unequal sacrifice in mass warfare. Today, as technology gives rise to wars of more limited mobilization, such arguments are no longer persuasive. Taxing the Rich shows how the future of tax reform will depend on whether political and economic conditions allow for new compensatory arguments to be made.
Author |
: Alexis de Tocqueville |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 364 |
Release |
: 1856 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105010213986 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Old Regime and the Revolution by : Alexis de Tocqueville