Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The European State Finance Database (ESFD) is an international collaborative research project for the collection of data in European fiscal history. There are no strict geographical or chronological boundaries to the collection, although data for this collection comprise the period between c.1200 to c.1815. The purpose of the ESFD was to establish a significant database of European financial and fiscal records. The data are drawn from the main extant sources of a number of European countries, as the evidence and the state of scholarship permit. The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material. The ESFD project at the University of Leicester serves also to assist scholars working with the data by providing statistical manipulations of data and high quality graphical outputs for publication. The broad aim of the project was to act as a facilitator for a general methodological and statistical advance in the area of European fiscal history, with data capture and the interpretation of data in key publications as the measurable indicators of that advance. The data were originally deposited at the UK Data Archive in SAS transport format and as ASCII files; however, data files in this new edition have been saved as tab delimited files. Furthermore, this new edition features documentation in the form of a single file containing essential data file metadata, source details and notes of interest for particular files.
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The files in this dataset relate to the datafiles in the Leicester database held in the directory /korner/.. File Information g124sid1. Ordinary revenues of the Swiss towns, 1501-1611 g124sid2. Growth of public debts and loans of nine Swiss towns, 1501-1611 g124sid3. Growth of interests on loans and life rents at Bale, 1501-1611 g124sid4. Revenue to the state of Luzern from wine, 1421-1798 g124sid5.* Revenue and expenditure of the city and state of Lucerne, 1430-1795 Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.
No sampling (total universe)
Compilation or synthesis of existing material
