:Emperor Charles V, Impresario of War: Campaign Strategy, International Finance, and Domestic Politics

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List of illustrations List of tables Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction Part I. Strategy and Finance: 1. The grand strategy of Charles V 2. The Habsburg-Valois struggle: Italy 1515-28 3. The search for revenue, I: the hard roads of fiscal reform 4. The search for revenue, II: parliamentary subsidies 5. The search for credit: Charles and his bankers Part II. Impresario of War: Charles's Campaigns, 1529-52 6. Finding uses for an army: Charles in Italy, 1529-30 7. Crusades in Austria and the Mediterranean, 1532-5 8. Failures in Provence and at Prevesa and Algiers, 1536-41 9. Charles's Grand Plan, 1543-4 10. The first Schmalkaldic War, 1546-7 11. The second Schmalkaldic War and the assault on Metz, 1552 Part III. War Taxation: Parliaments of the Core Provinces of the Low Countries, Naples, and Castile 12. Fiscal devolution and war taxation in the Low Countries 13. Baronial politics and war finances in the Kingdom of Naples 14. Town autonomy, Noble magistrates, and war taxation in Castile Conclusions Bibliography Index.