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2024
- 1-1 Correction to: Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business—Microfinance in Global History from the Late Medieval to the Modern
In: Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business
by Paola Avallone & Donatella Strangio
- 1-15 Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business—Microfinance in Global History from the Late Medieval to the Modern
In: Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business
by Paola Avallone & Donatella Strangio
- 1-15 Behind the Scenes of the Louisiana Purchase
In: The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase
by Larry Neal
- 1-16 Introduction
In: Reflecting Imperial Overstretch and New Realities
by Brian O’Sullivan
- 17-30 Setting Up the Finance for the Louisiana Purchase
In: The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase
by Larry Neal
- 19-26 Tanomoshi in Sixteenth-Century Kyoto. Some Brief Reflections
In: Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business
by Hiroshi Niki
- 19-39 Winning the Peace
In: Reflecting Imperial Overstretch and New Realities
by Brian O’Sullivan
- 27-42 Microcredit in the Shop in Late Medieval Tuscany: A Credit Centre for the Poor
In: Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business
by So Nakaya
- 31-51 “The Present Order of Things” in January 1803
In: The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase
by Larry Neal
- 41-65 British Trade Bank
In: Reflecting Imperial Overstretch and New Realities
by Brian O’Sullivan
- 43-63 Small Credit and the Financial Revolution in England
In: Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business
by Tawny Paul
- 53-82 Baring & Hope Anticipate Financing the Louisiana Purchase
In: The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase
by Larry Neal
- 65-85 Understanding Ottoman Microcredit Mechanism: The Case of Cash Waqfs
In: Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business
by Mehmet Bulut & Cem Korkut
- 67-88 Finance and Industry
In: Reflecting Imperial Overstretch and New Realities
by Brian O’Sullivan
- 83-114 All the Players Were Important
In: The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase
by Larry Neal
- 87-114 Between Conflict and Negotiation. The Loan on Pawn in the Kingdom of Naples: Birth, Evolution and Establishment
In: Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business
by Paola Avallone & Vittoria Ferrandino
- 89-111 Dash for Growth
In: Reflecting Imperial Overstretch and New Realities
by Brian O’Sullivan
- 115-134 Daniel Parker, Expatriate Extraordinaire
In: The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase
by Larry Neal
- 115-139 Shopkeepers and Credit Allocation. Consumption Credit in an Old Regime Economy (Buenos Aires, 17th to 19th centuries)
In: Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business
by Martín L. E. Wasserman & Julián Carrera
- 115-178 Russia
In: Reflecting Imperial Overstretch and New Realities
by Brian O’Sullivan
- 135-158 The Deal Is Done, But Problems Arise Everywhere: America, London, Paris, and Amsterdam
In: The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase
by Larry Neal
- 143-166 Moneylending in the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia: Microcredit Between Monasteries, Solidarity Groups, and Moneylenders
In: Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business
by Lidia Cotovanu
- 159-174 Meanwhile, More Trouble Back in Paris
In: The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase
by Larry Neal
- 167-191 Two German Monti di Pietà—Microcredit in Early Modern Augsburg and Nuremberg
In: Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business
by Tanja Skambraks
- 175-187 The Financial & Personal Crises of 1810–1811
In: The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase
by Larry Neal
- 179-267 Turkey
In: Reflecting Imperial Overstretch and New Realities
by Brian O’Sullivan
- 189-202 The War of 1812 and the Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase
In: The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase
by Larry Neal
- 193-215 The Summer of 1903 and the Battle over Small Loans Between the Monte di Pietà and Private Banks
In: Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business
by Maria Rosaria Rosa
- 203-211 Lessons Learned, Applied, and Ignored
In: The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase
by Larry Neal
- 213-217 Curtain Call: All the Players Should Take a Bow
In: The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase
by Larry Neal
- 217-240 Institution and Practices of Social Assistant: Monte di Pietà of Rome
In: Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business
by Donatella Strangio
- 243-263 Endowed Charities: The Microfinance System Used by Charitable Institutions in Catalonia (Eighteenth Century)
In: Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business
by Céline Mutos Xicola
- 265-288 Credit, Solidarity Networks and the Rural Poor in Preindustrial France
In: Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business
by Elise M. Dermineur
- 269-323 Middle East
In: Reflecting Imperial Overstretch and New Realities
by Brian O’Sullivan
- 289-313 Making Way for the Sparkasse—Institutions of Transition Between Personal and Organisational Credit in Nineteenth-Century Germany
In: Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business
by Daniel Reupke
- 315-345 Integrating Microfinance and Philanthropy Through the Syrian Sandouq: Lessons Learnt from Jabal Al-Hoss
In: Different Forms of Microcredit and Social Business
by Sabrina Iannazzone & Alija Avdukic
- 325-405 Continental Europe
In: Reflecting Imperial Overstretch and New Realities
by Brian O’Sullivan
- 409-427 Reconstruction
In: Reflecting Imperial Overstretch and New Realities
by Brian O’Sullivan
- 429-449 Home Front
In: Reflecting Imperial Overstretch and New Realities
by Brian O’Sullivan
- 451-469 Struggle for Survival
In: Reflecting Imperial Overstretch and New Realities
by Brian O’Sullivan
- 471-493 Reverberations
In: Reflecting Imperial Overstretch and New Realities
by Brian O’Sullivan
- 495-504 Conclusion
In: Reflecting Imperial Overstretch and New Realities
by Brian O’Sullivan
2023
- 1-11 Introduction
In: The Bubble Act
by Helen Paul
- 1-13 Introduction
In: Portugal in a European Context
by Amélia Aguiar Andrade & Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez
- 13-36 The Bubble Act and the First Corporate Economy
In: The Bubble Act
by Robin Pearson
- 17-43 The Study of Medieval Fiscal History in Portugal: Results and Problems (1951–2020)
In: Portugal in a European Context
by Amélia Aguiar Andrade
- 37-61 ‘Mr Morice Is Said to Appear at the Head’: The Bubble Act and an Aborted Joint-Stock Slave-Trading Company
In: The Bubble Act
by Matthew David Mitchell
- 45-66 The Collection of Annates in Portugal During the Papacy of Avignon, c. 1316–1377: Just Another Case of Apostolic Tax-Collecting in a Realm at the Back of Beyond?
In: Portugal in a European Context
by Mário Farelo
- 63-84 ‘That Ever-Memorable Year of Epidemical Infatuation’: Incorporation, the Jamaica Mines Company, and the Bubble Act of 1720
In: The Bubble Act
by Aaron Graham
- 67-89 Is the Economy an Issue? Kings and Economic Legislation in Medieval Portugal
In: Portugal in a European Context
by Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar
- 85-109 Pamphlet Poetry and the South Sea Bubble
In: The Bubble Act
by Claire Wilkinson
- 91-113 A Difficult Transition: Portuguese State Finances Between Later Medieval and Early Modern Times, c. 1415–1530
In: Portugal in a European Context
by Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez
- 111-129 Decoding the Bubble: Popular Magic, Financial Deception, and Eliza Haywood’s Memoirs of a Certain Island Adjacent to Utopia
In: The Bubble Act
by Alison Daniell
- 115-137 Taxes and Fiscal Institutions in a Maritime Empire, 15th–16th Centuries: A Comparative View of Overseas’ Territories Under the Portuguese Crown
In: Portugal in a European Context
by Susana Münch Miranda
- 131-161 Consequences Unintended: The Bubble Act and American Independence
In: The Bubble Act
by Robert E. Wright
- 139-148 Portugal in a Broader Perspective: The Later Middle Ages and Some Remarks for a Transition Towards the Early Modern Period
In: Portugal in a European Context
by Amélia Aguiar Andrade & Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez
- 151-157 Introduction—Constructing the Modern Fiscal States: Ruptures, Changes, and Permanencies
In: Portugal in a European Context
by Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez & Tony K. Moore
- 159-176 The ‘Resource Curse’ of Mediaeval English State Finance, C.1155–1453
In: Portugal in a European Context
by Tony K. Moore
- 163-193 Capitalism by Generalists: The Governance of the Ayr Bank and the Emergence of Professionalism in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Scottish Banking
In: The Bubble Act
by Paul Kosmetatos
- 177-200 A History of Taxation in the Kingdom of France (Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries): Policies, Rules and Practices
In: Portugal in a European Context
by Florent Garnier
- 195-219 Royal Charters, Royal Power, and the Business of Empire
In: The Bubble Act
by Helen Paul
- 201-218 Fiscal Tradition and Innovation in Italy, 1350–1650
In: Portugal in a European Context
by Luciano Pezzolo
- 219-245 A Treasury in Transition: Changes and Continuity in the Management of Castilian State Finances During the Reign of Isabella I (1474–1504)
In: Portugal in a European Context
by Pablo Ortego Rico
- 221-241 Babbage’s Age of Speculation: Calculating the Value of Life After the Repeal of the Bubble Act
In: The Bubble Act
by Edward Gillin
- 243-265 The Repeal of the Bubble Act and the Debate Between the Currency School and the Banking School
In: The Bubble Act
by Charles Read
- 247-277 Public Debt in Late Medieval Crown of Aragon: A(Nother) Financial Revolution?
In: Portugal in a European Context
by Albert Reixach Sala & Pere Verdés Pijuan
- 267-288 Agency Houses in Bengal and the Indigo Bubble
In: The Bubble Act
by Tehreem Husain & Nadeem Aftab
- 279-298 Why Holland Had a Financial Revolution, but Flanders and Brabant Did not
In: Portugal in a European Context
by Marjolein ’t Hart
- 289-295 Epilogue
In: The Bubble Act
by Julian Hoppit
- 299-324 Public Finance and Fiscal Policy. The Papal States in Early Modern Age
In: Portugal in a European Context
by Fausto Piola Caselli
- 325-331 Portugal and the Europe: Similarities, Bridges and Potential Avenues to Explore in Future Works on Comparative Fiscal History
In: Portugal in a European Context
by Rodrigo da Costa Dominguez & Amélia Aguiar Andrade
2022
2021
2020
- 1-1 Correction to: A World of Public Debts
In: A World of Public Debts
by Anna Michalski
- 1-8 Introduction
In: The Prince of Slavers
by Matthew David Mitchell
- 1-12 Introduction
In: The Political Economy of Money and Banking in Imperial Brazil, 1850–1889
by André A. Villela
- 1-18 Introduction
In: Government and Merchant Finance in Anglo-Gascon Trade, 1300–1500
by Robert Blackmore
- 1-22 Introduction
In: Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy 1750–1774
by Simon Adler
- 5-35 An Empire of Debts? Spain and Its Colonial Realm
In: A World of Public Debts
by Regina Grafe
- 9-50 Prologue to Morice: Anglo-African Trade Under the Royal African Company Monopoly
In: The Prince of Slavers
by Matthew David Mitchell
- 13-59 From Plurality of Issue to Monopoly and Back: 1850–60
In: The Political Economy of Money and Banking in Imperial Brazil, 1850–1889
by André A. Villela
- 19-55 The Politics of Markets
In: Government and Merchant Finance in Anglo-Gascon Trade, 1300–1500
by Robert Blackmore
- 23-63 Zinzendorf with Kaunitz in France, 1750–1752
In: Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy 1750–1774
by Simon Adler
- 37-55 Publicity, Debt, and Politics: The Old Regime and the French Revolution
In: A World of Public Debts
by Rebecca L. Spang
- 51-91 Morice’s Peers: The Early British Separate Traders
In: The Prince of Slavers
by Matthew David Mitchell
- 57-78 Politics of Credit: Government Borrowing and Political Regimes in Sweden
In: A World of Public Debts
by Patrik Winton
- 57-93 Commodities and Prices
In: Government and Merchant Finance in Anglo-Gascon Trade, 1300–1500
by Robert Blackmore
- 61-92 From the “Law of Impediments” to Restoration of Monopoly: 1860–6
In: The Political Economy of Money and Banking in Imperial Brazil, 1850–1889
by André A. Villela
- 65-94 French Intellectual Influence: Melon and Gournay
In: Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy 1750–1774
by Simon Adler
- 79-106 Public Debt and Democratic Statecraft in Nineteenth-Century France
In: A World of Public Debts
by David Todd & Alexia Yates
- 93-129 Morice’s Beginnings, 1704–1719
In: The Prince of Slavers
by Matthew David Mitchell
- 93-136 The Treasury as a Monopolist Note-Issuer: 1866–89
In: The Political Economy of Money and Banking in Imperial Brazil, 1850–1889
by André A. Villela
- 95-134 The German Translation of Law’s Money and Trade, 1758
In: Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy 1750–1774
by Simon Adler
- 95-139 Money and Trade
In: Government and Merchant Finance in Anglo-Gascon Trade, 1300–1500
by Robert Blackmore
- 111-133 The Entanglements of Domestic Polities: Public Debt and European Interventions in Latin America
In: A World of Public Debts
by Juan H. Flores Zendejas
- 131-184 Morice at the Peak, 1720–1727
In: The Prince of Slavers
by Matthew David Mitchell
- 135-154 Leveraging Foreign Control: Reform in the Ottoman Empire
In: A World of Public Debts
by Ali Coşkun Tunçer
- 135-189 The Development of Zinzendorf’s Thinking on State Credit
In: Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy 1750–1774
by Simon Adler
- 137-183 Taking Stock: Monetary and Banking Policy in the Second Reign
In: The Political Economy of Money and Banking in Imperial Brazil, 1850–1889
by André A. Villela
- 141-200 Mercantile Finance
In: Government and Merchant Finance in Anglo-Gascon Trade, 1300–1500
by Robert Blackmore
- 155-174 The Unforeseen Path of Debt Imperialism: Local Struggles, Transnational Knowledge, and Colonialism in Egypt
In: A World of Public Debts
by Malak Labib
- 175-199 Trading Sovereignty for Capital? Public Debt in West Africa, 1871–1914
In: A World of Public Debts
by Leigh Gardner
- 185-198 Conclusions
In: The Political Economy of Money and Banking in Imperial Brazil, 1850–1889
by André A. Villela
- 185-216 Morice’s Catastrophe, 1728–1731 and Beyond
In: The Prince of Slavers
by Matthew David Mitchell
- 191-250 The Financial Expert of the Habsburg Monarchy
In: Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy 1750–1774
by Simon Adler
- 201-230 The Domestic Effects of Foreign Capital: Public Debt and Regional Inequalities in Late Qing China
In: A World of Public Debts
by Dong Yan
- 201-274 Public Finance
In: Government and Merchant Finance in Anglo-Gascon Trade, 1300–1500
by Robert Blackmore
- 217-226 Conclusion
In: The Prince of Slavers
by Matthew David Mitchell
- 227-301 Morice’s Africa Voyages: An Annotated List
In: The Prince of Slavers
by Matthew David Mitchell
- 231-258 Fiscal Federalism: Local Debt and the Construction of the Modern State in the United States and France
In: A World of Public Debts
by Noam Maggor & Stephen W. Sawyer
- 251-259 Conclusion
In: Political Economy in the Habsburg Monarchy 1750–1774
by Simon Adler
- 261-286 The Financial Challenges of Total War: Britain, France, and Their Empires in the First World War
In: A World of Public Debts
by Nicolas Delalande
- 275-283 Conclusion
In: Government and Merchant Finance in Anglo-Gascon Trade, 1300–1500
by Robert Blackmore
- 287-315 Beyond Democracy or Dictatorship: Structuring Sovereign Debt in Germany from Weimar to the Postwar Period
In: A World of Public Debts
by Stefanie Middendorf
- 317-345 The Communist World of Public Debt (1917–1991): The Failure of a Countermodel?
In: A World of Public Debts
by Étienne Forestier-Peyrat & Kristy Ironside
- 347-369 Debt Without Taxation: Iraq, Syria, and the Crisis of Empires from the Mandates to the Cold War Era
In: A World of Public Debts
by Matthieu Rey
- 373-403 From Debt Dirigisme to Debt Markets in France and India
In: A World of Public Debts
by Anush Kapadia & Benjamin Lemoine
- 405-425 The Political Economy of Debt Crisis: State, Banks and the Financialization of Public Debt in Italy since the 1970s
In: A World of Public Debts
by Alexander Nützenadel
- 427-452 From a Multilateral Broker to the National Judge: The Law and Governance of Sovereign Debt Restructuring, 1980–2015
In: A World of Public Debts
by Jérôme Sgard
- 453-478 Of Bond Vigilantes, Central Bankers and the Crisis of 2008
In: A World of Public Debts
by Adam Tooze
- 481-511 The History and Politics of Public Debt Accounting
In: A World of Public Debts
by Éric Monnet & Blaise Truong-Loï
- 513-539 The Words of Public Debts: A Political Repertoire
In: A World of Public Debts
by Nicolas Barreyre & Nicolas Delalande
2019
- 1-17 Introduction
In: Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016
by Douglas Kanter & Patrick Walsh
- 1-23 Introduction
In: Financing the Landed Estate
by Carol Beardmore
- 19-42 Ireland, Mercantilism, and the Navigation Acts, 1660–1686
In: Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016
by James Guilfoyle
- 25-60 Estate Finances and Administration
In: Financing the Landed Estate
by Carol Beardmore
- 43-87 Politics, Parliament, Patriot Opinion, and the Irish National Debt in the Age of Jonathan Swift
In: Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016
by Charles Ivar McGrath
- 61-95 Working Relationships
In: Financing the Landed Estate
by Carol Beardmore
- 89-119 Patterns of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century Ireland
In: Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016
by Patrick Walsh
- 97-132 Social Relationships
In: Financing the Landed Estate
by Carol Beardmore
- 121-150 Finance and Politics in Ireland, 1801–17
In: Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016
by Trevor McCavery
- 133-166 Politics and the Landed Estate
In: Financing the Landed Estate
by Carol Beardmore
- 151-172 That ‘Absurd Phantom Called Free Trade’: The Politics of Protection in Ireland, c. 1829–52
In: Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016
by Andrew Shields
- 167-198 Social Control: Church, Charity and Education
In: Financing the Landed Estate
by Carol Beardmore
- 173-198 Resistance to the Collection of Rates Under the Poor Law, 1842–44
In: Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016
by Mel Cousins
- 199-213 Conclusion
In: Financing the Landed Estate
by Carol Beardmore
- 199-225 Taxation and the Economics of Nationalism in 1840s Ireland
In: Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016
by Charles Read
- 227-252 The Campaign Against Over-Taxation, 1863–65: A Reappraisal
In: Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016
by Douglas Kanter
- 253-275 Tides of Change and Changing Sides: The Collection of Rates in the Irish War of Independence, 1919–21
In: Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016
by Robin J. C. Adams
- 277-304 Taxation and the Revolutionary Inheritance: Tax Proposals, Legitimacy, and the Irish Free State, 1922–32
In: Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016
by Jason Knirck
- 305-330 The Economic War and the Pamphlet War
In: Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016
by Aidan Beatty
- 331-355 The Irish Tax State and Historical Legacies: Slowly Converging Capacity, Persistent Unwillingness to Pay
In: Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016
by Michelle D’Arcy & Marina Nistotskaya
2018
- 1-1 Erratum
In: Financing in Europe
by Pamela Nightingale
- 1-14 The Pattern of Central Bank Development: Past, Present and Future
In: Financial Innovation and Resilience
by C. A. E. Goodhart
- 1-16 Introduction: Corruption and the Rise of the Fiscal State
In: The War Within
by Anne Dubet & Joël Félix
- 1-16 The Political Economy of Taxing, Spending, and Redistribution Since 1945: An Introduction
In: Worlds of Taxation
by Gisela Huerlimann & W. Elliot Brownlee & Eisaku Ide
- 1-16 Introduction: Mortgages and Annuities in Historical Perspective
In: Land and Credit
by Chris Briggs & Jaco Zuijderduijn
- 1-18 Introduction
In: Financing in Europe
by D’Maris Coffman & Cinzia Lorandini & Marcella Lorenzini
- 1-22 Introduction
In: Jacob Schiff and the Art of Risk
by Adam Gower
- 1-26 The Place of Credit and Coin in the Medieval English Economy
In: Enterprise, Money and Credit in England before the Black Death 1285–1349
by Pamela Nightingale
- 1-39 Introduction
In: From Crisis to Crisis
by Brian O’Sullivan
- 1-40 ‘A Year of Confusion, Dismay, and Distress’: The 1772–73 Financial Crisis and Its Potential Significance
In: The 1772–73 British Credit Crisis
by Paul Kosmetatos
- 1-49 Introduction: The Interwar Coming of Age of Modern Futures Markets, Institutions and Governance
In: The Government of Markets
by Rasheed Saleuddin
- 1-53 Introduction
In: The Success of English Land Tax Administration 1643–1733
by Stephen Pierpoint
- 17-44 Credit and Discredit of Financiers in Wartime: Defrauding and Serving the Crown in Seventeenth-Century Spain
In: The War Within
by Sébastien Malaprade
- 17-45 Mortgages and the English Peasantry c.1250–c.1350
In: Land and Credit
by Chris Briggs
- 17-48 How Employers and Conservatives Shaped the Modern Tax State
In: Worlds of Taxation
by Alexander Hertel-Fernandez & Cathie Jo Martin
- 17-53 The Public Banks of Naples Between Financial Innovation and Crisis
In: Financial Innovation and Resilience
by Lilia Costabile & Eduardo Nappi
- 21-45 The Rise of London as a Financial Capital in Late Medieval England
In: Financing in Europe
by Pamela Nightingale
- 23-74 Historiography
In: Jacob Schiff and the Art of Risk
by Adam Gower
- 27-50 The Records of the Statutes of Acton Burnell, and Merchants, 1284–1349
In: Enterprise, Money and Credit in England before the Black Death 1285–1349
by Pamela Nightingale
- 41-79 End of the Golden Age
In: From Crisis to Crisis
by Brian O’Sullivan
- 41-122 A Minsky Bubble? Economic Growth and the Financial Sector in 1763–72
In: The 1772–73 British Credit Crisis
by Paul Kosmetatos
- 45-69 “I Carry a Serpent in My Bosom, Which Devours Me”: Finance, Morality and the Public Service in the Nine Years War, 1688–1697
In: The War Within
by Aaron Graham
- 47-74 When Things Go Wrong: Credit, Defaults and Institutions in Early Modern Venice
In: Financing in Europe
by Isabella Cecchini