Constructing a Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth-Century Spain
Historically, Spain has often been represented as a financial failure, a state limited by its absolutist monarchy and doomed to fiscal and financial failure without hope of lasting growth. The collapse of the Spanish state at the beginning of the nineteen
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Constructing a Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth-Century Spain Rafael Torres Sánchez Universidad de Navarra, Spain
Translated by Dave Langlois
© Rafael Torres Sánchez 2015 Foreword © Patrick Karl O’Brien 2015 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-47865-8
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