Dangerous and Dishonest Men: The International Bankers of Louis XIV's France

• Utgivningsdatum: 2015-01-01
• Mått: 140 x 216 x undefined mm
• Vikt: 364 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
• Antal sidor: 265
• Upplaga: 2015
• Förlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• ISBN: 9781349479740

• Europas historia
• Ekonomisk historia
• Finansiering
• Makroekonomi

Guy Rowlands is Reader in Early Modern History at the University of St Andrews, and has taught at Oxford, Cambridge, Bristol and Durham. A prize-winning author of books on French military and financial history, he has received several research fellowships from the British Academy and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

"Though this is a technical book, focused narrowly on a particular problem in international banking and state finance, Rowlands does a remarkably good job at explaining the intricacies of his subject, offering excellent introductions to the workings of the remitting system, the use of bills of exchange and the functions of international bankers. ... This new book is the definitive work on international remitting in the last phase of Louis XIV's reign, and is unlikely to be surpassed." (John Shovlin, English Historical Review, Vol. 131 (552), October, 2016) "Dangerous and Dishonest Men presents an astonishing story of administrative incompetence, corrupt banking practices, and financial disaster. Rowlands is remarkable in his ability to understand and clarify the intricacies of early modern war finance and bring them to bear on one of the major events in French economic history." (Thomas M. Luckett, Journal of Modern History, Vol. 88 (4), 2016)

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