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 The aim was to collect the data made available by scholars, whether drawing upon their published or unpublished archival research, or from other published material.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 held in the Leicester database in the directory /korner/prussia/.. These data on Prussian state finance, have been supplied by and interpreted by Professor Korner, drawing upon A.F. Riedel, `Der Brandenburgisch-Preussische Staatshaushalt in den beiden letzen Jahrhunderten' (Berlin, 1866). There is some incomplete data from the years before 1688. File Information g114pd01. Receipts and expenditure of the chamber of the prince-elector, 1602-38 g114pd02. Expenditure of the court, 1712-1808 g114pd03. Receipts and expenditure of the military treasury, 1688-1713 g114pd04. Total revenue of the state, 1714-40 g114pd05. Expenditure of the Prussian general finance and domain chamber, 1714-40 g114pd06. Expenditure of the Prussian war and general chambers for military purposes, 1714-40 g114pd07. Total revenue of the Prussian state, 1741-87 g114pd08. Expenditure of the Prussian war and general chambers for military purposes, 1741-87 g114pd09. Expenditure of the Prussian general domain chamber and dispositions chamber for court and civil expenses, 1741-87 g114pd10. Revenue of the Prussian royal discretionary chamber, 1788-1806 g114pd11. Expenditure of the Prussian royal discretionary chamber, 1788-1806 g114pd12. Total revenue of the Prussian state, 1788-1806 g114pd13. Expenditure on military works in the Prussian state, 1788-1806 g114pm01. Total revenue of the Prussian state, 1688-1806 g114pm02. Total expenditure of the Prussian state, 1688-1806 g114pm03. Total revenue and expenditure of the Prussian state, 1688-1806 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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