Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Tables viii
5. Contributors ix
6. Abbreviations xiii
7. Introduction 1
8. 1 Taxing London and the British fiscal state, 1660–1815 19
9. 2 Rents, squalor, and the land question: progress and poverty 35
10. 3 Marine insurers, the City of London, and financing the Napoleonic Wars 55
11. 4 The political economy of Sir Robert Peel 71
12. 5 Champagne capitalism: France’s adaptation to Britain’s global hegemony, 1830–80 91
13. 6 The 1848 revolution in Prussia: a financial interpretation 109
14. 7 Imperial Germany, Great Britain and the political economy of the gold standard, 1867–1914 127
15. 8 Knowledge, contestation and authority in the Eurodollar market, 1959–64 145
16. 9 Continuity and change in British Conservative taxation policy, c. 1964–88 161
17. 10 Britain since the 1970s: a transition to neo-liberalism? 181
18. 11 Maplin: the Treasury and London’s third airport in the 1970s 199
19. 12 Workfare and the reinvention of the social in America and Britain, c. 1965 to 1985 217
20. 13 Charity and international humanitarianism in post-war Britain 235
21. 14 Discounting time 251
22. 15 The material politics of energy disruption: managing shortages amidst rising expectations, Britain 1930s–60s 263
23. The published writings of Martin J. Daunton 281
24. Index 290