Communiqué from the War-Finance Nexus

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anjali Nath
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1938 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 111-115
Author(s):  
Kurt Bloch
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1915 ◽  
Vol 25 (100) ◽  
pp. 542
Author(s):  
A. Hook
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Historian ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Schroeder
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Author(s):  
Michael Sonenscher

This chapter shows how the moral and social dimensions of the subject of army reform grew out of the range of questions that it generated about property and inheritance, as against merit and distinction, in determining both the composition of the French nobility and its relationship to the French royal government. Getting the peacocks to pay raised a number of political dilemmas, however. These, in turn, helped to rule out the old vision of a powerful reforming monarch as the solution to absolute government's financial problems. The political history of the French Revolution thus began with the unavailability of this alternative. Irrespective of the damage done by the argument over military reform to any plausible prospect of relying on Louis XVI to be a patriot king, the model itself pulled strongly against both the realities of modern war finance and the more urgent political need to consolidate the royal debt.


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