A free nation deep in debt : the financial roots of democracy / James MacDonald.

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Edition:1st Princeton ed.
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2006.
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245 1 2 |a A free nation deep in debt :  |b the financial roots of democracy /  |c James MacDonald. 
250 |a 1st Princeton ed. 
260 |a Princeton, N.J. :  |b Princeton University Press,  |c 2006. 
300 |a ix, 564 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 23 cm. 
500 |a Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [523]-543) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction : The financial roots of democracy : 1. Tribes and empires : Rags to riches ; Barbarians at the gate ; The free men fight back ; Greeks and their "gifts" ; Civic debt ; Kings and tyrants ; The Carthaginian wars ; Imperium Romanum ; Breakdown -- 2. Citizen creditors : The return of the city-state ; La Serenissima ; La Superba ; The Monte Comune ; The twilight of repayable taxes ; San Giorgio ; Selfish citizens -- 3. Sovereign debt : Kings and merchants ; The treasure of the Indies ; Antwerp and Lyons ; Serial bankruptcy ; Folie des offices -- 4. Resistance to the hegemon : The league of cities ; Regicide ; Glorious revolution -- 5. The chimera : Le Roi Soleil ; Post-bellum depression ; The chimera ; The bubble -- 6. The dilemma : Mopping up ; The ruling class ; The dilemma ; The limits of absolutism ; Aristocratic revolution -- 7. Revolution : A new world ; The first and second American revolutions ; Enemies of the people ; The elephant and the whale -- 8. Bourgeois century : Pax Britannica ; The heyday of bourgeois finance ; Ties of identity ; A nation of pentiers ; Greenbacks and 5-20s -- 9. Nations at arms : Total war (part I) ; The settlement of accounts (part I) ; Total war (part II) ; Totalitarian war ; The settlement of accounts (part II) -- Epilogue : The end of the affair -- A note on currencies. 
650 0 |a Debts, Public  |x History. 
650 0 |a Democracy  |x Economic aspects. 
650 0 |a Political science  |x Economic aspects. 
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