Imperial Inequalities

Preface: Fiscal democracy and the legacy of empire - Quinn Slobodian

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Imperial Inequalities - Gurminder K. Bhambra and Julia McClure

Part I: Institutional and fiscal issues
1 The great gage: Mortgaging Ireland to finance an empire - David Brown
2 The cost of thrift: The politics of 'financial autonomy' in the French colonial empire, 1900-14 - Madeline Woker
3 Madagascar and French imperial mercantilism: Foreign trade and domestic crises, 1895-1914 - Samuel F. Sanchez
4 The right to sovereign seizure? Taxation, valuation, and the Imperial British East Africa Company - Emma Park
5 Internal inequalities: Taxpayers, taxation, and expenditure in Sierra Leone, c. 1890s to 1937 - Laura Channing

Part II: Taxation and welfare
6 Taxation, welfare, and inequalities in the Spanish imperial state - Julia McClure
7 Political economies of welfare of the Spanish Empire: Tax and charity for the Hospital de los Naturales of Potosi - Camille Salle
8 Poverty, health, and imperial wealth in early modern Scotland - Andrew Mackillop
9 Compromise and adaptation in colonial taxation: Political-economic governance and inequality in Indonesia - Maarten Manse
10 Imperial revenue and national welfare: The case of Britain - Gurminder K. Bhambra

Part III: Post-colonial legacies
11 Making investor states: Haitian foreign debt and neocolonial economic governance in nineteenth-century France - Alexia Yates
12 The lure of the welfare state following decolonisation in Kenya - Lyla Latif
13 From capitation taxes to tax havens: British fiscal policies in a colonial island world - Gregory Rawlings
14 Imperial extraction and 'tax havens' - Alex Cobham
15 The Crown Agents and the CDC Group: Imperial extraction and development's 'private sector turn' - Paul Robert Gilbert

Afterword: Imperialism and global inequalities - Heloise Weber

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