A world of public debts : a political history

A world of public debts : a political history / Nicolas Barreyre, Nicolas Delalande, editors.

This book analyzes public debt from a political, historical, and global perspective. It demonstrates that public debt has been a defining feature in the construction of modern states, a main driver in the history of capitalism, and a potent geopolitical force. From revolutionary crisis to empire and...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Barreyre, Nicolas, 1975- (Editor), Delalande, Nicolas (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Series:Palgrave studies in the history of finance.
Subjects:
Debts, Public.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I Political Crises and the Legitimacy of Public Debts (1770s-1860s)
  • 1. An Empire of Debts? Spain and Its Colonial Realm
  • 2. Publicity, Debt, and Politics: The Old Regime and the French Revolution
  • 3. Politics of Credit: Government Borrowing and Political Regimes in Sweden
  • 4. Public Debt and Democratic Statecraft in Nineteenth-Century France
  • Part II Global Capital, Imperial Expansions, and Changing Sovereignties (1860s-1914)
  • 5. The Entanglements of Domestic Polities: Public Debt and European Interventions in Latin America
  • 6. Leveraging Foreign Control: Reform in the Ottoman Empire
  • 7. The Unforeseen Path of Debt Imperialism: Local Struggles, Transnational Knowledge, and Colonialism in Egypt
  • 8. Trading Sovereignty for Capital? Public Debt in West Africa, 1871-1914
  • 9. The Domestic Effects of Foreign Capital: Public Debt and Regional Inequalities in Late Qing China
  • 10. Fiscal Federalism: Local Debt and the Construction of the Modern State in the United States and France
  • Part III The Great Transformation of Public Debts (1914-1970s)
  • 11. The Financial Challenges of Total War: Britain, France, and Their Empires in the First World War
  • 12. Beyond Democracy or Dictatorship: Structuring Sovereign Debt in Germany from Weimar to the Postwar Period
  • 13. The Communist World of Public Debt (1917-1991): The Failure of a Countermodel?
  • 14. Debt Without Taxation: Iraq, Syria, and the Crisis of Empires from the Mandates to the Cold War Era
  • Part IV The Political Roads to Financial Markets and Global Debt Crisis (1970s)
  • 15. From Debt Dirigisme to Debt Markets in France and India
  • 16. The Political Economy of Debt Crisis: State, Banks, and the Financialization of Public Debt in Italy since the 1970s
  • 17. From a Multilateral Broker to the National Judge: The Law and Governance of Sovereign Debt Restructuring, 1980-2015
  • 18. Of Bond Vigilantes, Central Bankers, and the Crisis of 2008
  • Part V Conclusion: On the Historical Uses of Numbers and Words
  • 19. The History and Politics of Public Debt Accounting
  • 20. The Words of Public Debts: A Political Repertoire. .

Similar Items