A free nation deep in debt : the financial roots of democracy / James MacDonald.
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| Edition: | 1st Princeton ed. |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
