Imperial Inequalities

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 -- .

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 Potosí – Camille Sallé
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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