| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 332 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Postcolonial international studies |
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Postcolonial international studies.
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| Contents |
Preface: Fiscal democracy and the legacy of empire / Quinn Slobodian -- Introduction: Imperial inequalities / Gurminder K. Bhambra and Julia McClure -- The great gage: Mortgaging Ireland to finance an empire / David Brown -- The cost of thrift: The politics of 'financial autonomy' in the French colonial empire, 1900-14 / Madeline Woker -- Madagascar and French imperial mercantilism: Foreign trade and domestic crises, 1895-1914 / Samuel F. Sanchez -- The right to sovereign seizure? Taxation, valuation, and the Imperial British East Africa Company / Emma Park -- Internal inequalities: Taxpayers, taxation, and expenditure in Sierra Leone, c. 1890s to 1937 / Laura Channing -- Taxation, welfare, and inequalities in the Spanish imperial state / Julia McClure-- Political economies of welfare of the Spanish Empire: Tax and charity for the Hospital de los Naturales of Potosí / Camille Sallé -- Poverty, health, and imperial wealth in early modern Scotland / Andrew Mackillop -- Compromise and adaptation in colonial taxation: Political-economic governance and inequality in Indonesia / Maarten Manse -- Imperial revenue and national welfare: The case of Britain / Gurminder K. Bhambra -- Making investor states: Haitian foreign debt and neocolonial economic governance in nineteenth-century France / Alexia Yates -- The lure of the welfare state following decolonisation in Kenya / Lyla Latif -- From capitation taxes to tax havens: British fiscal policies in a colonial island world / Gregory Rawlings -- Imperial extraction and 'tax havens' / Alex Cobham -- 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 |
| Summary |
"This wide-ranging volume challenges existing historiographical accounts that present states and empires as separate categories. Instead, it views them as co-constitutive units by focusing upon the politics of economic governance across imperial spaces. Authors examine the fiscal innovations that enabled European empires to finance their expansion, the politics of redistribution that were important to constructing the veneer of legitimacy of taxation, and the fiscal mechanisms that were established to ensure that the imperial contours of inequality continued to define the postcolonial world. These diverse contributions provide new resources for how we think about issues of taxation and welfare across the longue durée"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Gurminder K. Bhambra is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex. Julia McClure is Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval and Early Modern Global History in the School of Humanities, University of Glasgow |
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Print version record |
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Equality -- Europe -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
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Colonies -- Administration
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Economic policy
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Equality
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Politics and government
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Europe -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045733
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Europe -- Economic policy
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Europe -- Colonies -- Administration -- History
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Europe -- Colonies -- Economic policy
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bhambra, Gurminder K., editor.
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McClure, Julia, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781526166159 |
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1526166151 |
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9781526166135 |
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1526166135 |
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