Imperial Inequalities: The politics of economic governance across European empires

Front Matter -- Contents -- List Of Figures -- List Of Tables -- Notes On Contributors -- Preface: Fiscal Democracy And The Legacy Of Empire -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Imperial Inequalities -- Part I: Institutional And Fiscal Issues -- The Great Gage: Mortgaging Ireland To Finance An Empire -- The Cost Of Thrift: The Politics Of 'financial Autonomy' In The French Colonial Empire, 1900-14 -- Madagascar And French Imperial Mercantilism: Foreign Trade And Domestic Crises, 1895-1914 -- The Right To Sovereign Seizure? Taxation, Valuation, And The Imperial British East Africa Company Internal Inequalities: Taxpayers, Taxation, And Expenditure In Sierra Leone, C. 1890s To 1937 -- Part Ii: Taxation And Welfare -- Taxation, Welfare, And Inequalities In The Spanish Imperial State -- Political Economies Of Welfare Of The Spanish Empire: Tax And Charity For The Hospital De Los Naturales Of Potosí -- Poverty, Health, And Imperial Wealth In Early Modern Scotland -- Compromise And Adaptation In Colonial Taxation: Political-economic Governance And Inequality In Indonesia -- Imperial Revenue And National Welfare: The Case Of Britain -- Part Iii: Post-colonial Legacies Making Investor States: Haitian Foreign Debt And Neocolonial Economic Governance In Nineteenth-century France -- The Lure Of The Welfare State Following Decolonisation In Kenya -- From Capitation Taxes To Tax Havens: British Fiscal Policies In A Colonial Island World -- Imperial Extraction And 'tax Havens' -- The Crown Agents And The Cdc Group: Imperial Extraction And Development's 'private Sector Turn' -- Afterword: Imperialism And Global Inequalities -- Index Edited By Gurminder Bhambra And Julia Mcclure. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.