A World of Public Debts: A Political History (Hardcover, 2020)

Introduction; Nicolas Barreyre and Nicolas Delalande.- Part I. Political Crises and the Legitimacy of Public Debts (1770s-1860s).- Chapter 1. An Empire of Debts? Spain and its Colonial Realm; Regina Grafe.- Chapter 2. Publicity, Debt, and Politics: The Old Regime and the French Revolution; Rebecca L. Spang.- Chapter 3. Politics of Credit: Government Borrowing and Political Regimes in Sweden; Patrick Winton.- Chapter 4. Public Debt and Democratic Statecraft in Nineteenth-Century France; David Todd and Alexia Yates.- Part II. Capital, Imperial Expansions, and Changing Sovereignties (1860s-1914).- Chapter 5. The Entanglements of Domestic Polities: Public Debt and European Interventions in Latin America; Juan H. Flores Zendejas.- Chapter 6. Leveraging Foreign Control: Reform in the Ottoman Empire; Ali Co?kun Tuncer.- Chapter 7. The Unforeseen Path of Debt Imperialism: Local Struggles, Transnational Knowledge, and Colonialism in Egypt; Malak Labib.- Chapter 8. Trading Sovereignty for Capital? Public Debt in West Africa, 1871-1914; Leigh Gardner.- Chapter 9. The Domestic Effects of Foreign Capital: Public Debt and Regional Inequalities in Late Qing China; Dong Yan.- Chapter 10. Fiscal Federalism: Local Debt and the Construction of the Modern State in the United States and France; Noam Maggor and Stephen W. Sawyer.- Part III. The Great Transformation of Public Debts (1914-1970s).- Chapter 11. The Financial Challenges of  Total War: Britain, France, and their Empires in the First World War; Nicolas Delalande.- Chapter 12. Beyond Democracy or Dictatorship: Structuring Sovereign Debt in Germany from Weimar to the Postwar Period; Stefanie Middendorf.- Chapter 13.  The Communist World of Public Debt (1917-1991): The Failure of a Countermodel?; Etienne Forestier-Peyrat and Kristy Ironside.- Chapter 14. Debt Without Taxation: Iraq, Syria, and the Crisis of Empires from the Mandates to the Cold War Era; Matthieu Rey.- Part IV. The Political Roads to Financial Markets and Global Debt Crisis (1970s).- Chapter 15. From Debt Dirigisme to Debt Markets in France and India; Anush Kapadia and Benjamin Lemoine.- Chapter 16. The Political Economy of Debt Crisis: State, Banks, and the Financialisation of Public Debt in Italy since the 1970s; Alexander Nutzenadel.- Chapter 17. From a Multilateral Broker to the National Judge: The Law and Governance of Sovereign Debt Restructuring, 1980-2015; Jerome Sgard.- Chapter 18. Of Bond Vigilantes, Central Bankers, and the Crisis of 2008; Adam Tooze.- Part V. Conclusion: On the Historical Uses of Numbers and Words.- Chapter 19. The History and Politics of Public Debt Accounting; Eric Monnet and Blaise Truong-Loi.- Chapter 20. The Words of Public Debts: A Political Repertoire; Nicolas Barreyre and Nicolas Delalande.