The War Within

Joël Félix is Professor of European History at the University of Reading, UK. His specialism is in early-modern fiscal and political history, particularly in France. His main publications include Finance et politique au siècle des Lumières (CHEFF 1999) and Louis XVI et Marie-Antoinette (Payot 2006). With J. Swann, he is the editor of Crisis of the Absolute Monarchy (British Academy/OUP 2013), and he has recently edited Before Fiscal Transparency (Histoire & Mesure 2015). Anne Dubet is Professor of Early-Modern Spanish History at the University Clermont-Auvergne, France, specializing in the history of finances and politics in early modern Spain. Her most recent book is La Hacienda Real de la Nueva Planta (1713-1726), entre fraude y buen gobierno (Fondo de Cultura Económica, Madrid, 2015) and she co-authored, with S. Solbes Ferri, El rey, el ministro y el tesorero. El gobierno de la Real Hacienda en el siglo XVIII español (Madrid, Marcial Pons Historia, 2019).

Chapter 1. Introduction; Anne Dubet and Joël Félix.- Chapter 2. Credit and Discredit of Financiers in Wartime: Defrauding and Serving the Crown in Seventeenth-Century Spain; Sébastien Malaprade.- Chapter 3. "I carry a serpent in my bosom, which devours me": Finance, Morality and the Public Service in the Nine Years War, 1688-1697; Aaron Graham.- Chapter 4. The Spanish Monarchy and Financier Fraud During the Early Eighteenth Century: A Morality of Favours and Negotiation; Anne Dubet.- Chapter 5. Forgery of the French Coinage: The Question of the Counterfeit Money in the Southern Low Countries, 1710-1730; Marie-Laure Legay.- Chapter 6. The Talhouët Affair; François R. Velde.- Chapter 7. Tax Officials Stand Accused: Reform in Taxation and Public Morality in the Dutch Republic, 1748-1756; Toon Kerkhoff.- Chapter 8. Between Private and Public Interests: The Moral Economy of Collaboration in Eighteenth-Century Spain; Agustín González Enciso.- Chapter 9. Why did Chambres de Justice Disappear in Eighteenth-Century France? Fiscal Profit and Institutional Change, 1688-1788; Joël Félix.- Chapter 10. War, Resources and Morality: Sweden 1740-1770; Patrik Winton.- Chapter 11. For the Good of the Prince: Government and Corruption in Germany During the Eighteenth Century; Robert Bernsee.