Making War Pay for War. Napoleon and the Dutch War Subsidy, 1795-1806.
Just over one decade ago, Pierre Branda published a study of Napoleonic public finance. The study marks a turning point in the historiography of Napoleonic war financing because, through relying on well-researched quantitative data, Branda lays to rest the long-held myth that Napoleon ‘made war pay for war’. However, the Franco-centric conceptualisation of Napoleonic resource extraction and the temporal delineation have resulted in a prism that omits certain sources of revenue. This omission has a bearing on Branda’s overall assessment of Napoleonic war financing. Through exploring French reso... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, Vol 17, Iss 2 (2020) |
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openjournals.nl
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Schlagwörter: | The Netherlands / Revolutionary and Napoleonic History / War Financing / Fiscal-Military State / Diplomacy and International Relations / Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform / HN1-995 / Economic history and conditions / HC10-1085 |
Sprache: | Englisch Niederländisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27188670 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.18352/tseg.1102 |
Just over one decade ago, Pierre Branda published a study of Napoleonic public finance. The study marks a turning point in the historiography of Napoleonic war financing because, through relying on well-researched quantitative data, Branda lays to rest the long-held myth that Napoleon ‘made war pay for war’. However, the Franco-centric conceptualisation of Napoleonic resource extraction and the temporal delineation have resulted in a prism that omits certain sources of revenue. This omission has a bearing on Branda’s overall assessment of Napoleonic war financing. Through exploring French resource extraction in the Netherlands through forcing the Dutch to pay for the maintenance of a French contingent, this article builds on Branda’s work to shed a new light on the success of Napoleonic resource extraction and war financing.