Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. 1 Introduction 1
5. PART I
6. 2 The Fiscal-Military State and the Napoleonic Wars 39
7. 3 Trusting Leviathan: the Politics of Taxation, 1815–1914 61
8. 4 Taxation and Representation in the Victorian City 89
9. 5 The Material Politics of Natural Monopoly: Gas in Victorian Britain 111
10. 6 Tax Transfers: Britain and its Empire, 1848–1914 128
11. PART II
12. 7 ‘Gentlemanly Capitalism’ and British Industry, 1820–1914 147
13. 8 Inheritance and Succession in the City of London in the Nineteenth Century 179
14. 9 Firm and Family in the City of London in the Nineteenth Century: the Case of F. G. Dalgety 196
15. 10 Britain and Globalization: Creating a Global Order, 1850–1914 220 220
16. PART III
17. 11 Payment and Participation: Welfare and State Formation in Britain, 1900–1951 253
18. 12 Mutuality and State Formation: Britain and the United States, c. 1890–1940 290
19. Index 317