'Jerome Greenfield's study provides a lucid account of the ways in which France created a resilient modern fiscal state, while successive regimes struggled in their attempts to establish a stable political system in the aftermath of French Revolution.' Joel Felix, University of Reading
List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1. The nineteenth-century French state and its rivals; 2. The revolutionary quest for fiscal stability, 1789–1799; 3. Developing a post-revolutionary fiscal politics, 1799–1814; 4. Recasting the fiscal-military system, 1814–1821; 5. The resurgence of French power, 1821–1830; 6. The 1830 Revolution and the limits of fiscal reform; 7. The Ascent of the interventionist Orleanist state, 1830–1848; 8. The rise and fall of austerity, 1848–1856; 9. Reaching the limits of the fiscal-military system, 1856–1871; 10. The triumph of the notables; Bibliography; Index.