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 The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material.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 files held in the Leicester database in the directory /rjb/.. File Information g138cod1. Direct taxation in the pays d'elections, 1594-1647 g138cod2. Direct taxation in the generalites of Chalons, Caen and Rouen, 1597-1643 g138eld1. Levy of the taille in the election of Paris, 1615-1787 g138elm1. Value in millions of hectolitres of wheat of levy of taille in the election of Paris, 1615-1787 g138elm2. The levy of taille in the election of Paris and in the generalites of Chalons, Caen and Rouen, 1597-1643 g138fd01. Direct taxation from the pays d'elections and the pays d'impositions, 1789 g138fd02. Total French expenditure, 1801-1844 g138fd03. Total French expenditure, 1815-1849 g138fd04. French revenues, 1815-1849 g138fd05. French government expenditure, 1815-1850 g138fd06. French government revenues from taxation, 1815-1850 g138fd07. The value of the taille in France, 1461-1609 g138fd08. Life rents and tontines, 1733-1788 g138fd09. Estimates of direct taxes and surtaxes collected in France, 1792-1829 g138fd10. Retrospective budgets of the Ancien Regime; Etats au vrai of the Ancien Regime g138fd11. Central government revenues and expenditures, 1727-1768 g138fm01. The value of the taille in France, 1461-1609, in millions of hectolitres of wheat, harvest and calendar years g138fm02. Revenue from direct taxation, total taxation and total revenue in France, 1815-29 g138ged1.* Repartition of the taille between elections of the generalite of Paris, 1688-1712 Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.
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