Introduction: beginnings, periods and problems -- 1. The economy of manufacture -- 2. A universal merchant to the world: the political economy of commerce and finance -- 3. The ambiguities of free trade -- 4. The reach of the state: taxation -- 5. The age of localism -- 6. The public, the private and the state: civil society 1680-1880 -- 7. Exclusion and inclusion: the political consequences of 1688 -- 8. Exclusion and inclusion: defending the politics of finality 1832-1885 -- 9. The stabilities and instabilities of elite authority: social relations c.1688-c.1880
