Imperial Inequalities, 9781526166142
Hardcover
Empires’ legacies: Taxation, welfare, and the roots of modern inequality.

Imperial Inequalities

the politics of economic governance across european empires

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  • Hardcover

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    30 November 2022

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Summary

Imperial Inequalities: Taxation, Welfare, and the Legacy of Empire

Imperial Inequalities takes Western European empires and their legacies as the explicit starting point for a discussion of issues of taxation and welfare.

Specifically, it addresses the institutional and fiscal processes involved in the modes of extraction, taxation, and the hierarchies of welfare distribution across Europe’s global empires. It uses the idea of ‘imperial inequalities’ as a co…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781526166142
ISBN-10:1526166143
Author:Gurminder Bhambra, Julia McClure
Publisher:Manchester University Press
Imprint:Manchester University Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:30 November 2022
Weight:671g
Dimensions:234mm x 156mm x 21mm
Series:Postcolonial International Studies
About The Author

Gurminder Bhambra

Gurminder K. Bhambra is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex.

Julia McClure is Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval and Early Modern Global History in the School of Humanities, University of Glasgow.

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