Maritime power and the power of money in Louis XIV’s France

• Verfasst von: Darnell, Benjamin [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Maritime power and the power of money in Louis XIV’s France
• Titelzusatz: private finance, the contractor state, and the French navy
• Verf.angabe: Benjamin Darnell
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Verlag: The Boydell Press
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 279 Seiten)
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
• ISBN: 978-1-78744-838-4
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Darnell, Benjamin: Maritime power and the power of money in Louis XIV’s France. - Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, 2023. - 294 Seiten
• K10plus-PPN: 1868639924
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Abstract

A detailed analysis of the limitations of the system which relied on intermediaries and private suppliers to finance, build and maintain the French navy.

Abstract

Front Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- General Introduction -- Part I The Strategic and Fiscal Context -- Introduction -- 1 French Naval Policy in the Nine Years' War -- 2 The Spanish Succession and the Shift in French Naval Strategy -- 3 Revenue-Raising and Credit Operations Under Louis XIV -- Part II The Financing of Naval Expenditure -- Introduction -- 4 The Navy's Financial Intermediaries -- 5 The Costs, Risks, and Rewards of Office -- Part III Paymaster Accountability and the Limitations of the State -- Introduction -- 6 Accounting Regulations and Financial Reporting Structures in the Navy -- 7 Financial Intelligence Gathering in War -- 8 Private Interest, Misappropriation, ‎and Fraud in the Naval Treasury -- Part IV The Development and Management of the Naval Treasury -- Introduction -- 9 Organisational Expedients and Securing Access to Credit, 1628-88 -- 10 Reforms and the Fiscal Challenges of War, 1688-1701 -- Part V Fiscal Overextension and Operational Paralysis in the Era of the Spanish Succession -- Introduction -- 11 Funding Shortfalls and Financial Pressures, 1701-07 -- 12 The Collapse of French Naval Power, 1707-09 -- Conclusion -- Appendix I. Military-related spending in livres by exercice or financial year in the era of the Spanish succession conflict, 1700-13 -- Appendix II. Military-related spending in livres by exercice or financial year in the era of the Nine Years' War, 1689-99 -- Appendix III. Royal revenues in livres excluding the capitation and dixième taxes, 1683-1713 -- Appendix IV. Royal revenues in livres including the capitation and dixième taxes, 1683-1713 -- Appendix V. The average geographical distribution of Louis XIV's fleet in terms of rated warships and frégates légères, 1701-09 -- Appendix VI. Naval spending by area of expenditure, 1701-09.