Gurminder K Bhambra is Professor of Historical Sociology in the School of Global Studies at the University of SussexJulia McClure is Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval and Early Modern Global History in the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow

• Preface: Fiscal democracy and the legacy of empire – Quinn SlobodianAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Imperial Inequalities – Gurminder K. Bhambra and Julia McClure Part I: Institutional and fiscal issues1 The great gage: Mortgaging Ireland to finance an empire – David Brown 2 The cost of thrift: The politics of ‘financial autonomy’ in the French colonial empire, 1900–14 – Madeline Woker3 Madagascar and French imperial mercantilism: Foreign trade and domestic crises, 1895–1914 – Samuel F. Sanchez4 The right to sovereign seizure? Taxation, valuation, and the Imperial British East Africa Company – Emma Park5 Internal inequalities: Taxpayers, taxation, and expenditure in Sierra Leone, c. 1890s to 1937 – Laura ChanningPart II: Taxation and welfare6 Taxation, welfare, and inequalities in the Spanish imperial state – Julia McClure7 Political economies of welfare of the Spanish Empire: Tax and charity for the Hospital de los Naturales of Potosí – Camille Sallé8 Poverty, health, and imperial wealth in early modern Scotland – Andrew Mackillop9 Compromise and adaptation in colonial taxation: Political-economic governance and inequality in Indonesia – Maarten Manse 10 Imperial revenue and national welfare: The case of Britain – Gurminder K. Bhambra Part III: Post-colonial legacies11 Making investor states: Haitian foreign debt and neocolonial economic governance in nineteenth-century France – Alexia Yates 12 The lure of the welfare state following decolonisation in Kenya – Lyla Latif 13 From capitation taxes to tax havens: British fiscal policies in a colonial island world – Gregory Rawlings14 Imperial extraction and ‘tax havens’ – Alex Cobham15 The Crown Agents and the CDC Group: Imperial extraction and development’s ‘private sector turn’ – Paul Robert GilbertAfterword: Imperialism and global inequalities – Heloise WeberIndex

Gurminder K Bhambra is Professor of Historical Sociology in the School of Global Studies at the University of SussexJulia McClure is Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval and Early Modern Global History in the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow

• Preface: Fiscal democracy and the legacy of empire – Quinn SlobodianAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Imperial Inequalities – Gurminder K. Bhambra and Julia McClure Part I: Institutional and fiscal issues1 The great gage: Mortgaging Ireland to finance an empire – David Brown 2 The cost of thrift: The politics of ‘financial autonomy’ in the French colonial empire, 1900–14 – Madeline Woker3 Madagascar and French imperial mercantilism: Foreign trade and domestic crises, 1895–1914 – Samuel F. Sanchez4 The right to sovereign seizure? Taxation, valuation, and the Imperial British East Africa Company – Emma Park5 Internal inequalities: Taxpayers, taxation, and expenditure in Sierra Leone, c. 1890s to 1937 – Laura ChanningPart II: Taxation and welfare6 Taxation, welfare, and inequalities in the Spanish imperial state – Julia McClure7 Political economies of welfare of the Spanish Empire: Tax and charity for the Hospital de los Naturales of Potosí – Camille Sallé8 Poverty, health, and imperial wealth in early modern Scotland – Andrew Mackillop9 Compromise and adaptation in colonial taxation: Political-economic governance and inequality in Indonesia – Maarten Manse 10 Imperial revenue and national welfare: The case of Britain – Gurminder K. Bhambra Part III: Post-colonial legacies11 Making investor states: Haitian foreign debt and neocolonial economic governance in nineteenth-century France – Alexia Yates 12 The lure of the welfare state following decolonisation in Kenya – Lyla Latif 13 From capitation taxes to tax havens: British fiscal policies in a colonial island world – Gregory Rawlings14 Imperial extraction and ‘tax havens’ – Alex Cobham15 The Crown Agents and the CDC Group: Imperial extraction and development’s ‘private sector turn’ – Paul Robert GilbertAfterword: Imperialism and global inequalities – Heloise WeberIndex

Gurminder K Bhambra is Professor of Historical Sociology in the School of Global Studies at the University of SussexJulia McClure is Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval and Early Modern Global History in the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow

• Preface: Fiscal democracy and the legacy of empire – Quinn SlobodianAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Imperial Inequalities – Gurminder K. Bhambra and Julia McClure Part I: Institutional and fiscal issues1 The great gage: Mortgaging Ireland to finance an empire – David Brown 2 The cost of thrift: The politics of ‘financial autonomy’ in the French colonial empire, 1900–14 – Madeline Woker3 Madagascar and French imperial mercantilism: Foreign trade and domestic crises, 1895–1914 – Samuel F. Sanchez4 The right to sovereign seizure? Taxation, valuation, and the Imperial British East Africa Company – Emma Park5 Internal inequalities: Taxpayers, taxation, and expenditure in Sierra Leone, c. 1890s to 1937 – Laura ChanningPart II: Taxation and welfare6 Taxation, welfare, and inequalities in the Spanish imperial state – Julia McClure7 Political economies of welfare of the Spanish Empire: Tax and charity for the Hospital de los Naturales of Potosí – Camille Sallé8 Poverty, health, and imperial wealth in early modern Scotland – Andrew Mackillop9 Compromise and adaptation in colonial taxation: Political-economic governance and inequality in Indonesia – Maarten Manse 10 Imperial revenue and national welfare: The case of Britain – Gurminder K. Bhambra Part III: Post-colonial legacies11 Making investor states: Haitian foreign debt and neocolonial economic governance in nineteenth-century France – Alexia Yates 12 The lure of the welfare state following decolonisation in Kenya – Lyla Latif 13 From capitation taxes to tax havens: British fiscal policies in a colonial island world – Gregory Rawlings14 Imperial extraction and ‘tax havens’ – Alex Cobham15 The Crown Agents and the CDC Group: Imperial extraction and development’s ‘private sector turn’ – Paul Robert GilbertAfterword: Imperialism and global inequalities – Heloise WeberIndex