The Making of a Fiscal-Military State in Post-Revolutionary France

by Jerome Greenfield

Drawing on a wide range of archival and published documents, this book explains how the French Revolution of 1789 transformed the French state and its fiscal system, and how further reforms in the nineteenth century created a durable, post-revolutionary state. Instead of presenting the nineteenth-century French state as primarily the creation of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era, as most scholars have done, Jerome Greenfield emphasises the importance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108839673
• ISBN13: 9781108839679
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"