From Deficit to Deluge
Author | : Dale Van Kley |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 475 |
Release | : 2011 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780804772815 |
ISBN-13 | : 0804772819 |
Rating | : 4/5 (819 Downloads) |
Download or read book From Deficit to Deluge written by Dale Van Kley and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven authorities in their respective fields come together to offer a new interpretation of the French Revolution: they show how the French monarchy's clumsy efforts to solve a fiscal crisis politicized long-standing structural problems, metastasizing an apparently fairly "normal" fiscal crisis into a revolution.