The Politics of Fiscal Privilege in Provence, 1530s-1830s

by Rafe Blaufarb

Rafe Blaufarb examines the interwoven problems of taxation and social privilege in this treatment of the contention over fiscal privilege between the seigneurial nobility and the tax-payers of Provence. From the 1530s until the French Revolution and beyond, a series of deceptively simple questions divided privileged from non-privileged elites in the province: what made land noble and, hence, tax exempt; how could land acquire or lose noble status?...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813219507
• ISBN13: 9780813219509
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"