Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures and Tables
- Introduction
- 1 From Private to Public Management: Tax Farming and Customs Duties in Rome (1630–1700)
- 2 From Taxation to Indebtedness: The Urban Fiscal System of Milan during the Austrias Domination (1535–1706)
- 3 The Urban Tax System in the Kingdom of Naples (Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
- 4 Public Institutions, Local Politics and Urban Taxation in Seventeenth-Century Aragon
- 5 Taxation and Debt in the Early Modern Castilian Cities: The Case of Seventeenth-Century Madrid
- 6 Tax Collection in Spain in the Eighteenth Century: The Case of the ‘Décima’
- 7 Finances, the State and the Cities in France in the Eighteenth Century
- 8 The Making of the Urban Fiscal System of Antwerp until 1800: Excises, Annuities and Debt Management
- 9 The Dutch Financial System between Public and Private Interests: Urban Debt (1500–1700)
- 10 The Urban Fiscal System in the Habsburg Monarchy: The Case of the Austrian Hereditary Lands in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
- 11 Taxation and Debt in Early Modern German Cities
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Introduction
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures and Tables
- Introduction
- 1 From Private to Public Management: Tax Farming and Customs Duties in Rome (1630–1700)
- 2 From Taxation to Indebtedness: The Urban Fiscal System of Milan during the Austrias Domination (1535–1706)
- 3 The Urban Tax System in the Kingdom of Naples (Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
- 4 Public Institutions, Local Politics and Urban Taxation in Seventeenth-Century Aragon
- 5 Taxation and Debt in the Early Modern Castilian Cities: The Case of Seventeenth-Century Madrid
- 6 Tax Collection in Spain in the Eighteenth Century: The Case of the ‘Décima’
- 7 Finances, the State and the Cities in France in the Eighteenth Century
- 8 The Making of the Urban Fiscal System of Antwerp until 1800: Excises, Annuities and Debt Management
- 9 The Dutch Financial System between Public and Private Interests: Urban Debt (1500–1700)
- 10 The Urban Fiscal System in the Habsburg Monarchy: The Case of the Austrian Hereditary Lands in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
- 11 Taxation and Debt in Early Modern German Cities
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
The course of the European history of the early modern period was shaped by the process of state formation. The rise of the fiscal state being one of the best manifestations of this trend, the study of the fiscal and financial systems created by the European polities of the period has attracted the interest of the researchers for a long time. The nascent European states of the time developed fiscal systems at an early stage to raise the incomes with which to fund their progressively more expensive activities. As those revenues were not sufficient to pay their spending, the states supplemented them with income coming from short- and long-term public debt. Hence, the study of the fiscal state has unavoidably become closely intertwined with the analysis of advances in the European finances brought by the expansion of that same state.
Recent research has emphasized the continuities between the fiscal and financial history of towns and states and now it is widely acknowledged that the systems of public credit developed by the monarchies and republics of the early modern period were modelled on the example set by European cities during the last centuries of the Middle Ages. At least since the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries a group of Aragonese, Italian and Low Countries towns began to issue annuities funded through taxation.
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- Taxation and Debt in the Early Modern City , pp. 1 - 12Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014