Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures vii
4. List of tables x
5. Notes on contributors xi
6. Preface xiv
7. Acknowledgements xix
8. Introduction 1
9. Part I: Institutional and fiscal issues
10. 1 The great gage 19
11. 2 The cost of thrift 37
12. 3 Madagascar and French imperial mercantilism 57
13. 4 The right to sovereign seizure? Taxation, valuation, and the Imperial British East Africa Company 79
14. 5 Internal inequalities 98
15. Part II: Taxation and welfare
16. 6 Taxation, welfare, and inequalities in the Spanish imperial state 121
17. 7 Political economies of welfare of the Spanish Empire 138
18. 8 Poverty, health, and imperial wealth in early modern Scotland 157
19. 9 Compromise and adaptation in colonial taxation 177
20. 10 Imperial revenue and national welfare 198
21. Part III: Post-colonial legacies
22. 11 Making investor states 219
23. 12 The lure of the welfare state following decolonisation in Kenya 240
24. 13 From capitation taxes to tax havens 259
25. 14 Imperial extraction and ‘tax havens’ 280
26. 15 The Crown Agents and the CDC Group 299
27. Afterword 319
28. Index 329