TY - JOUR
T1 - Batavian Allies: The Dutch Contribution to Financing the Napoleonic Wars
T2 - a Response to Pierre Branda’s “Did War Pay for War?”
AU - Hay, Mark
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - Just over one decade ago, Pierre Branda published a study of Napoleonic public finance. The study marks a turning point in the historiography of Napoleonic war financing because, through relying on well-researched quantitative data, Branda lays to rest the long-held myth that Napoleon ‘made war pay for war’. However, the conceptualisation of Napoleonic resource extraction, the methodology for quantifying resource flows and the temporal delineation have resulted in a prism that omits certain resource flows. This has a bearing on the assessment of Napoleonic war financing. Through exploring French resource extraction in the Netherlands this article builds on Branda’s work to shed a new light on the success of Napoleonic resource extraction and war financing.
AB - Just over one decade ago, Pierre Branda published a study of Napoleonic public finance. The study marks a turning point in the historiography of Napoleonic war financing because, through relying on well-researched quantitative data, Branda lays to rest the long-held myth that Napoleon ‘made war pay for war’. However, the conceptualisation of Napoleonic resource extraction, the methodology for quantifying resource flows and the temporal delineation have resulted in a prism that omits certain resource flows. This has a bearing on the assessment of Napoleonic war financing. Through exploring French resource extraction in the Netherlands this article builds on Branda’s work to shed a new light on the success of Napoleonic resource extraction and war financing.
UR - https://www.cairn.info/revue-napoleonica-la-revue-2021-2-page-32.htm
M3 - Article
SP - 32
EP - 51
JO - Napoleonica. La Revue
JF - Napoleonica. La Revue
IS - 40
M1 - 40
ER -