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Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vii
- List of tables x
- Notes on contributors xi
- Preface xiv
- Acknowledgements xix
- Introduction 1
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Part I: Institutional and fiscal issues
- 1 The great gage 19
- 2 The cost of thrift 37
- 3 Madagascar and French imperial mercantilism 57
- 4 The right to sovereign seizure? Taxation, valuation, and the Imperial British East Africa Company 79
- 5 Internal inequalities 98
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Part II: Taxation and welfare
- 6 Taxation, welfare, and inequalities in the Spanish imperial state 121
- 7 Political economies of welfare of the Spanish Empire 138
- 8 Poverty, health, and imperial wealth in early modern Scotland 157
- 9 Compromise and adaptation in colonial taxation 177
- 10 Imperial revenue and national welfare 198
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Part III: Post-colonial legacies
- 11 Making investor states 219
- 12 The lure of the welfare state following decolonisation in Kenya 240
- 13 From capitation taxes to tax havens 259
- 14 Imperial extraction and ‘tax havens’ 280
- 15 The Crown Agents and the CDC Group 299
- Afterword 319
- Index 329
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vii
- List of tables x
- Notes on contributors xi
- Preface xiv
- Acknowledgements xix
- Introduction 1
-
Part I: Institutional and fiscal issues
- 1 The great gage 19
- 2 The cost of thrift 37
- 3 Madagascar and French imperial mercantilism 57
- 4 The right to sovereign seizure? Taxation, valuation, and the Imperial British East Africa Company 79
- 5 Internal inequalities 98
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Part II: Taxation and welfare
- 6 Taxation, welfare, and inequalities in the Spanish imperial state 121
- 7 Political economies of welfare of the Spanish Empire 138
- 8 Poverty, health, and imperial wealth in early modern Scotland 157
- 9 Compromise and adaptation in colonial taxation 177
- 10 Imperial revenue and national welfare 198
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Part III: Post-colonial legacies
- 11 Making investor states 219
- 12 The lure of the welfare state following decolonisation in Kenya 240
- 13 From capitation taxes to tax havens 259
- 14 Imperial extraction and ‘tax havens’ 280
- 15 The Crown Agents and the CDC Group 299
- Afterword 319
- Index 329