The Cost of Empire: The Finances of the Kingdom of Naples in
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Calabria, Antonio, PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press, This is a study of early modern government finance in ong>ong>theong>ong> kingdom of Naples, one of ong>ong>theong>ong> most important European dominions of ong>ong>theong>ong> Spanish Empire. Professor Calabria focuses on ong>ong>theong>ong> period from ong>ong>theong>ong> mid-sixteenth century to ong>ong>theong>ong> time of ong>ong>theong>ong> Thirty Years' War. He connects fiscal developments to larger issues, such as ong>ong>theong>ong> seventeenth-century ong>crisisong>, ong>ong>theong>ong> decline of Italy and Spain, and ong>ong>theong>ong> economic and social significance of investments in government securities markets in early modern Europe. ong>ong>Theong>ong> Cost of Empire blends quantitative data on economic, fiscal, and financial affairs with non-quantitative material detailing attitudes, economic behaviour, and administrative practices. ong>ong>Theong>ong> quantitative material includes analyses of government budgets from to and a computer study of about investors and ong>ong>theong>ong>ir investments in state securities in ong>ong>theong>ong> later sixteenth century. ong>ong>Theong>ong> work is unrivalled in ong>ong>theong>ong> breadth, comprehensiveness, and sophistication of its analysis of an early modern fiscal system.