Imperial Inequalities by Gurminder Bhambra - ISBN: 9781526191267
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Empires built on inequality: Taxation, welfare, and lasting global legacies.

Imperial Inequalities

The Politics of Economic Governance Across European Empires

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    352 pages

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    30 June 2025

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Summary

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

In doing so, it addresses the institutional and fiscal processes involved in modes of extraction, taxation, and the hierarchies of welfare distribution across Europe’s global empires. The idea of ‘imperial inequalities’ provides a conceptual frame for thinking about the long-standing colonial histories that are respon…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781526191267
ISBN-10:1526191261
Author:Gurminder Bhambra, Julia McClure
Publisher:Manchester University Press
Imprint:Manchester University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:30 June 2025
Weight:498g
Dimensions:234mm x 156mm x 19mm
Series:Postcolonial International Studies
About The Author

Gurminder Bhambra

Gurminder K Bhambra is Professor of Historical Sociology in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex.

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

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