Imperial inequalities

• Titel: Imperial inequalities
• Titelzusatz: the politics of economic governance across European empires
• Mitwirkende: Bhambra, Gurminder K. [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: McClure, Julia [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Gurminder K. Bhambra and Julia McClure
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Jahr: 2022
• Umfang: xx, 332 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Diagramme, Illustrationen, Karten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Postcolonial international studies
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-6614-2
• ISBN: 1-5261-6614-3
• Schlagwörter: (g)Europa / (s)Kolonialismus
• Dokumenttyp: Aufsatzsammlung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Imperial inequalities. - Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022. - 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 332 Seiten)
• Sach-SW: Colonialism & imperialism
• Sach-SW: HISTORY / Historical Geography
• Sach-SW: Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
• Sach-SW: POL045000
• Sach-SW: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
• Sach-SW: Social & cultural history
• Sach-SW: Sociology
• Sach-SW: Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
• Sach-SW: Soziologie
• Sach-SW: Welfare economics
• Sach-SW: Wohlfahrtsökonomie
• K10plus-PPN: 1812004435

Abstract

"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 responsible, at least in part, for the shape of present inequalities. This wide-ranging volume challenges existing historiographical accounts that present states and empires as separate categories. Instead, it views them as co-constitutive units by focusing upon the politics of economic governance across imperial spaces. Authors examine the fiscal innovations that enabled European empires to finance their expansion, the politics of redistribution that were important to constructing the veneer of legitimacy of taxation, and the fiscal mechanisms that were established to ensure that the imperial contours of inequality continued to define the postcolonial world. These diverse contributions provide new resources for how we think about issues of taxation and welfare across the longue duree.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 10, Reduced inequalities."