영문목차
Abbreviations=xi
Introduction=1
Part I. Consuming the People=13
1. The Emergence of Public Credit:War, Revenue, and High Politics, 1643-1721=15
2. The 'Consumptiblity' of Goods:Customs, Excise, and Trade=35
3. The Equitable Tax?=53
4. Liberty, Property, and the Excise=63
Part II. The 'Devil's Remedy'=85
5. Delusion? Trust, Credit, and the Excise=87
6. The Introduction of the Excise=94
7. 'His leering eyes gives such a look':The World of Excise=117
Part III. An Impolite and Commercial People:The Common Economy=131
8. Life on the Waterfront=133
9. Pilfering, Customs Fees, and Remuneration=154
10. Smuggling=165
11. Free Trade, Transport, and Concealment=184
Part IV. 'Going on the Gauge':Excise, Fraud, and Production=207
12. Drink and Food=209
13. Candles, Salt, Soap, Starch, Leather, Paper, Textiles, and Glass=235
Part V. 'Ye Judgement of the Gaugers':Shaping and Regulating the Marekt=259
14. Measurement, Instrumentation, and Alcohol Standards=261
15. Revenue, Metrology, and Casks=280
16. The Incarceration, Adulteration, and Policing of Taxed Goods=299
Part VI. Dismantling the Fiscal-Military State=317
17. The Limits of Taxation and Politics of Representation=319
18. Revenue, 'Old Corruptions', and Manufacturing Interests=341
19. 'Simplicity, Uniformity and Perspicuity'=358
20. 'The Calico Millennium'=379
Index=384