
Tropical Leviathan
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- Preface
- Author's Preface
- 1: Introduction: 'When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid'
- Part I: The colonial state
- 2: The purposes of power: society and fear
- 3: The levers of power: politics and legislation
- 4: The sinews of power: taxation and the economy
- Part II: Intermezzo
- 5: 'The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold'
- Part III: The military state
- 6: Imperial military: defending the indefensible
- 7: Colonial military: the tropical way of war
- 8: Supplies: public service and private profit
- Part IV: Intermezzo
- 9: 'His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal'
- Part V: The fiscal state
- 10: Fiscal: the limits of the fiscal constitution
- 11: Public credit: a colonial financial revolution
- 12: Currency: unintended consequences
- Part IV: Conclusion
- 13: Conclusion: 'he esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood'
- Appendix I: Governors, Commanders in Chief, and Receivers-General
- Appendix II: Interpreting Jamaican finances
- Appendix III: Reconstructing Caribbean economies
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