A free nation deep in debt : the financial roots of democracy
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書誌事項
A free nation deep in debt : the financial roots of democracy
（Princeton paperbacks）
Princeton University Press, 2006
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注記
Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003
Bibliography: p. [523]-543
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
For the greater part of recorded history the most successful and powerful states were autocracies; yet now the world is increasingly dominated by democracies. In A Free Nation Deep in Debt, James Macdonald provides a novel answer for how and why this political transformation occurred. The pressures of war finance led ancient states to store up treasure; and treasure accumulation invariably favored autocratic states. But when the art of public borrowing was developed by the city-states of medieval Italy as a democratic alternative to the treasure chest, the balance of power tipped. From that point on, the pressures of war favored states with the greatest public creditworthiness; and the most creditworthy states were invariably those in which the people who provided the money also controlled the government. Democracy had found a secret weapon and the era of the citizen creditor was born. Macdonald unfolds this tale in a sweeping history that starts in biblical times, passes via medieval Italy to the wars and revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and ends with the great bond drives that financed the two world wars.
目次
Introduction: THE FINANCIAL ROOTS OF DEMOCRACY 3 CHAPTER 1. TRIBES AND EMPIRES 10 Rags to Riches 10 Barbarians at the Gate 18 The Free Men Fight Back 24 Greeks and Their "Gifts" 31 Civic Debt 36 Kings and Tyrants 42 The Carthaginian Wars 45 Imperium Romanum 51 Breakdown 56 CHAPTER 2. CITIZEN CREDITORS 67 The Return of the City-State 67 La Serenissima 72 La Superba 77 The Monte Comune 81 The Twilight of Repayable Taxes 84 San Giorgio 94 Selfish Citizens 100 CHAPTER 3. SOVEREIGN DEBT 105 Kings and Merchants 105 The Treasure of the Indies 115 Antwerp and Lyons 122 Serial Bankruptcy 128 Folie des Offices 138 CHAPTER 4. RESISTANCE TO THE HEGEMON 148 The League of Cities 148 Regicide 157 Glorious Revolution 166 CHAPTER 5. THE CHIMERA 179 Le Roi Soleil 179 Post-bellum Depression 185 The Chimera 190 The Bubble 205 CHAPTER 6. THE DILEMMA 220 Mopping Up 221 The Ruling Class 227 The Dilemma 239 The Limits of Absolutism 255 Aristocratic Revolution 266 CHAPTER 7. REVOLUTION 272 A New World 277 The First and Second American Revolutions 289 Enemies of the People 307 The Elephant and the Whale 334 CHAPTER 8. BOURGEOIS CENTURY 347 Pax Britannica 348 The Heyday of Bourgeois Finance 355 Ties of Identity 366 A Nation of Rentiers 377 Greenbacks and 5-20s 384 CHAPTER 9. NATIONS AT ARMS 400 Total War (Part I) 400 The Settlement of Accounts (Part I) 413 Total War (Part II) 435 Totalitarian War 445 The Settlement of Accounts (Part II) 456 Epilogue: THE END OF THE AFFAIR 465 A Note on Currencies 477 Glossary 483 Notes 487 Bibliography 523 Acknowledgments 545 Index 547
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