1st Edition

Taxation and Public Finances in the Spanish Empire 1550-1750

288 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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The emergence and consolidation of the so-called modern state was one of the most remarkable features of the early modern period and went hand in hand with the development of fiscal and financial systems. This book explores the case of the Spanish Habsburgs who ruled over a vast collection of states and principalities in the burgeoning Spanish empire. In this edited volume, a cast of expert... Read more

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INTRODUCTION

Fiscal and financial policies in the Spanish Empire between 1550 and 1750: An overview

José Ignacio Andrés Ucendo, Ramón Lanza García and Xabier Lamikiz

1. The Castilian fiscal and financial system in the 16^th and 17^th centuries (1561-1700)

José Ignacio Andrés Ucendo and Ramón Lanza García

2. Royal revenues and fiscal privileges in Early Modern Navarre.

Mario García Zúñiga

3. State, taxation and finance in Italy. Some comparative issues.

Luciano Pezzolo

4. Fiscal crisis and public debt in Castile at the end of the reign of Charles V.

Sergio Sardone

5. State coercion, negotiation, and predation. The political economy of the Spanish Empire and the taxation of the Carrera de Indias, c. 1570-1700.

Xabier Lamikiz

6. Merchants of Mexico City and the Bula of Crusade in New Spain, 1590-1659.

María del Pilar Martínez López-Cano

7. Cardinal Portocarrero, the Cathedral Chapter of Toleo and the Papacy in the negotiation of the 1707 loan to Felipe V.

Roberto López Vela

8. Changing hands: Debt management, credible commitment and the market for public debt in Portugal, 1520-1760.

Leonor Freire Costa

9. “Es política segura y obligación precissa evitar la mayor ruina”. Municipal taxation and debt in the Spanish Crown of Aragon (1718-1760).

Íñigo Ena San Juan

10. Economic decline and financial crisis in Flanders and Brabant during the 17th and 18th centuries seen through the eyes of contemporary memoirs.

Michael Limberger

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