Jerome Greenfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 3980845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerome Greenfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerome |
| FAMILY NAME | Greenfield |
| SIGNATURE | GREENFIELD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9929-7857 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Making of a Fiscal-Military State in Post-Revolutionary France
Drawing on a wide range of archival and published documents, this book explains how the French Revolution of 1789 transformed the French state and its fiscal system, and how further reforms in the nineteenth century created a durable, post-revolutionary state. Instead of presenting the nineteenth-century French state as primarily the creation of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era, as most scholars have done, Jerome Greenfield emphasises the imp…
Making of a Fiscal-Military State in Post-Revolutionary France
Le Crédit mobilier avant la suprématie des Pereire
Les historiens ont souvent souligné l’importance des frères Pereire dans la révolution bancaire en France, et surtout dans la fondation du Crédit mobilier. Une innovation d’échelle, ce dernier est largement une création de banquiers établis, particulièrement de Benoît Fould. En utilisant de nouvelles sources, cet article réévalue le rôle de Fould dans la fondation du Crédit mobilier, et place cette institution dans le contexte des développements …
As solid as and more precious than gold’
It is a truism that the experience of the assignats in the 1790s deterred the French from paper-based wealth during the nineteenth century, a notion that dovetails with a long-standing narrative of French economic backwardness in this period, particularly relative to Britain. This article revisits this interpretation through the study of proposals for public borrowing during the late Empire and early Restoration, most notably those promoted by th…
The Origins of the Interventionist State in France, 1830–1870
The historiography of the French state’s economic interventionism has focused primarily on the Ancien Régime and the period from the 1850s into the twentieth century. This article argues that, though often overlooked, the French state embarked on a major expansion in the 1830s and 1840s, as government spending on public works grew sharply. Most notably, the government contributed to the financing of railways and urban improvements. Following the …
The Mexican Expedition of 1862–1867 and the End of the French Second Empire
The French expedition to Mexico from 1862 to 1867 rarely features in accounts of the origins of the Franco-Prussian War or of the liberalization of the French Second Empire in its final years. By contrast, this article uses a range of archival and published sources to argue that the failure of the Mexican expedition was an important factor in the crisis that convulsed French politics in the late 1860s. The legitimacy of the fiscal-military system…
The Price of Violence
Much of the nature of French imperialism in Algeria can be explained through an analysis of its financial underpinnings, a subject generally neglected by historians. This article recounts the creation of a colonial fiscal system during the period of the French conquest of Algeria from the 1830s to the 1850s. It argues that money played a decisive role in shaping relations between metropolitan officials and the military leaders who comprised the “…
Financing a new order
The French lost the Napoleonic wars, but they won the peace, for themselves and for Europe more generally, when they fulfilled the terms imposed by the victorious allies. To raise the money required to meet these obligations, the French resorted to borrowing, floating loans that were foundational in the history of French public debt. Despite their importance, these loans have received little recent attention. This article draws on previously unus…
Gabriel Hanotaux and French Grand Strategy, 1894–8
This article seeks to reappraise the strategic vision of Gabriel Hanotaux, the French Foreign Minister from 1894 to 1898. Most of the scholarship on Hanotaux has focused on his African policies, since shortly after he left office French and British forces engaged in a standoff at Fashoda on the Nile, marking the nadir of pre-war Franco-British relations. This article moves beyond Africa and argues that Hanotaux's foreign policy had a global dimen…
The Mexican Expedition of 1862–1867 and the End of the French Second Empire
The French expedition to Mexico from 1862 to 1867 rarely features in accounts of the origins of the Franco-Prussian War or of the liberalization of the French Second Empire in its final years. By contrast, this article uses a range of archival and published sources to argue that the failure of the Mexican expedition was an important factor in the crisis that convulsed French politics in the late 1860s. The legitimacy of the fiscal-military system…
The Origins of the Interventionist State in France, 1830–1870
The historiography of the French state’s economic interventionism has focused primarily on the Ancien Régime and the period from the 1850s into the twentieth century. This article argues that, though often overlooked, the French state embarked on a major expansion in the 1830s and 1840s, as government spending on public works grew sharply. Most notably, the government contributed to the financing of railways and urban improvements. Following the …
The Price of Violence
Much of the nature of French imperialism in Algeria can be explained through an analysis of its financial underpinnings, a subject generally neglected by historians. This article recounts the creation of a colonial fiscal system during the period of the French conquest of Algeria from the 1830s to the 1850s. It argues that money played a decisive role in shaping relations between metropolitan officials and the military leaders who comprised the “…
Gabriel Hanotaux and French Grand Strategy, 1894–8
This article seeks to reappraise the strategic vision of Gabriel Hanotaux, the French Foreign Minister from 1894 to 1898. Most of the scholarship on Hanotaux has focused on his African policies, since shortly after he left office French and British forces engaged in a standoff at Fashoda on the Nile, marking the nadir of pre-war Franco-British relations. This article moves beyond Africa and argues that Hanotaux's foreign policy had a global dimen…
Gabriel Hanotaux and French Grand Strategy, 1894–8
This article seeks to reappraise the strategic vision of Gabriel Hanotaux, the French Foreign Minister from 1894 to 1898. Most of the scholarship on Hanotaux has focused on his African policies, since shortly after he left office French and British forces engaged in a standoff at Fashoda on the Nile, marking the nadir of pre-war Franco-British relations. This article moves beyond Africa and argues that Hanotaux's foreign policy had a global dimen…
Financing a new order
The French lost the Napoleonic wars, but they won the peace, for themselves and for Europe more generally, when they fulfilled the terms imposed by the victorious allies. To raise the money required to meet these obligations, the French resorted to borrowing, floating loans that were foundational in the history of French public debt. Despite their importance, these loans have received little recent attention. This article draws on previously unus…
Le Crédit mobilier avant la suprématie des Pereire
Les historiens ont souvent souligné l’importance des frères Pereire dans la révolution bancaire en France, et surtout dans la fondation du Crédit mobilier. Une innovation d’échelle, ce dernier est largement une création de banquiers établis, particulièrement de Benoît Fould. En utilisant de nouvelles sources, cet article réévalue le rôle de Fould dans la fondation du Crédit mobilier, et place cette institution dans le contexte des développements …
As solid as and more precious than gold’
It is a truism that the experience of the assignats in the 1790s deterred the French from paper-based wealth during the nineteenth century, a notion that dovetails with a long-standing narrative of French economic backwardness in this period, particularly relative to Britain. This article revisits this interpretation through the study of proposals for public borrowing during the late Empire and early Restoration, most notably those promoted by th…
The Origins of the Interventionist State in France, 1830–1870
The historiography of the French state’s economic interventionism has focused primarily on the Ancien Régime and the period from the 1850s into the twentieth century. This article argues that, though often overlooked, the French state embarked on a major expansion in the 1830s and 1840s, as government spending on public works grew sharply. Most notably, the government contributed to the financing of railways and urban improvements. Following the …
The Mexican Expedition of 1862–1867 and the End of the French Second Empire
The French expedition to Mexico from 1862 to 1867 rarely features in accounts of the origins of the Franco-Prussian War or of the liberalization of the French Second Empire in its final years. By contrast, this article uses a range of archival and published sources to argue that the failure of the Mexican expedition was an important factor in the crisis that convulsed French politics in the late 1860s. The legitimacy of the fiscal-military system…
The Price of Violence
Much of the nature of French imperialism in Algeria can be explained through an analysis of its financial underpinnings, a subject generally neglected by historians. This article recounts the creation of a colonial fiscal system during the period of the French conquest of Algeria from the 1830s to the 1850s. It argues that money played a decisive role in shaping relations between metropolitan officials and the military leaders who comprised the “…
The Making of a Fiscal-Military State in Post-Revolutionary France
Drawing on a wide range of archival and published documents, this book explains how the French Revolution of 1789 transformed the French state and its fiscal system, and how further reforms in the nineteenth century created a durable, post-revolutionary state. Instead of presenting the nineteenth-century French state as primarily the creation of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era, as most scholars have done, Jerome Greenfield emphasises the imp…
Making of a Fiscal-Military State in Post-Revolutionary France
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