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Constructing a Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth-Century Spain

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137478665

ISBN: 978-1-349-69346-7

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Dec 18, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Sánchez, Rafael Torres

Pages: 1 –9

[We start with a key and little-noticed event in December 1784, just after Jacques Necker, the Swiss banker and director general of finance of the absolutist state par excellence, France, had published his book De l’administration des finances de la France, in which he warned of the irremediable...
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Chapter 2The Habsburg Fiscal and Financial Inheritance

Sánchez, Rafael Torres

Pages: 10 –30

[When the new Bourbon king Philip V came to Spain in 1700 he inherited a declining empire from the previous Habsburg monarch Charles II (1665–1700). It had been run ragged by nearly 200 years of continual struggles across the globe and also many internal territorial problems. Its finances and...
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Chapter 3French Inspiration

Sánchez, Rafael Torres

Pages: 31 –65

[The coming to the throne of Philip V, the first Bourbon king (1701–46), ushered in a new stage in the construction of Spain’s fiscal-military state. This change has traditionally been put down to the ‘new broom’ effect of the new reign and the new dynasty. As grandson of Louis XIV, the Duke of...
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Chapter 4The Spanish System

Sánchez, Rafael Torres

Pages: 66 –113

[French inspiration as the driving force behind the construction of Spain’s fiscal-military state was short-lived. The War of Succession had stimulated measures that brought Spain into line with the French model. The introduction of a direct tax in the conquered regions, the venality of public...
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Chapter 5In the Wake of the English

Sánchez, Rafael Torres

Pages: 114 –188

[The advent in Spain of a new monarch in 1759, Charles III, King of Naples, implied no immediate and radical change in fiscal policy, but it did in terms of military policy. Charles was in favour of a bigger show of overseas force, both militarily and diplomatically, and exploited the favourable...
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Chapter 6The Efficacy of Spain’s Fiscal-Military State

Sánchez, Rafael Torres

Pages: 189 –212

[From the second half of the seventeenth century many changes were brought in and many feats pulled off in the long process of reforming the Spanish state. The most notable were the establishment of its unchallengeable authority and entitlement to control resources, and the modification of the...
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Chapter 7Conclusions

Sánchez, Rafael Torres

Pages: 213 –214

[Spain’s construction of a fiscal-military state in the eighteenth century managed to fend off the political and economic doom to which the Habsburgs’ empire had seemed headed. The change brought about in the period from 1690 to 1790 was radical and the process was by no means either quick or...
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Chapter 8Appendix

Sánchez, Rafael Torres

Pages: 215 –223

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