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

Klappentext 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. It sheds new light on two major fields of scholarly enquiry - early modern state-formation and revolutionary origins - and suggests a new explanation for the rise and fall of French absolutism. Zusammenfassung 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. It sheds new light on two major fields of scholarly enquiry - early modern state-formation and revolutionary origins - and suggests a new explanation for the rise and fall of French absolutism.

About the author

Rafe Blaufarb is Ben Weider Eminent Scholar and director of the Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution at Florida State University. His publications include The French Army, Bonapartists in the Borderlands: French Exiles and Refugees on the Gulf Coast, and, most recently, Napoleon: Symbol for an Age.

Product details

• Authors: Rafe Blaufarb
• Publisher: Catholic univ of america press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2012
• EAN: 9780813219509
• ISBN: 978-0-8132-1950-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Taxes; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries