Batavian Allies: The Dutch Contribution to Financing the Napoleonic Wars:a Response to Pierre Branda’s “Did War Pay for War?”

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 conceptualisation of Napoleonic resource extraction, the methodology for quantifying resource flows and the temporal delineation have resulted in a prism that omits certain resource flows. This has a bearing on the assessment of Napoleonic war financing. Through exploring Fren... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Hay, Mark
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Reihe/Periodikum: Hay , M 2021 , ' Batavian Allies: The Dutch Contribution to Financing the Napoleonic Wars : a Response to Pierre Branda’s “Did War Pay for War?” ' , Napoleonica. La Revue , no. 40 , 40 , pp. 32-51 . < https://www.cairn.info/revue-napoleonica-la-revue-2021-2-page-32.htm >
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Sprache: Englisch
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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 conceptualisation of Napoleonic resource extraction, the methodology for quantifying resource flows and the temporal delineation have resulted in a prism that omits certain resource flows. This has a bearing on the assessment of Napoleonic war financing. Through exploring French resource extraction in the Netherlands this article builds on Branda’s work to shed a new light on the success of Napoleonic resource extraction and war financing.