Preface: Fiscal democracy and the legacy of empire - Quinn SlobodianAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Imperial Inequalities - Gurminder K. Bhambra and Julia McClurePart I: Institutional and fiscal issues1 The great gage: Mortgaging Ireland to finance an empire - David Brown2 The cost of thrift: The politics of 'financial autonomy' in the Frenchcolonial empire, 1900-14 - Madeline Woker3 Madagascar and French imperial mercantilism: Foreign trade and domesticcrises, 1895-1914 - Samuel F. Sanchez4 The right to sovereign seizure? Taxation, valuation, and the ImperialBritish East Africa Company - Emma Park5 Internal inequalities: Taxpayers, taxation, and expenditure in SierraLeone, c. 1890s to 1937 - Laura ChanningPart II: Taxation and welfare6 Taxation, welfare, and inequalities in the Spanish imperial state - JuliaMcClure7 Political economies of welfare of the Spanish Empire: Tax and charity forthe Hospital de los Naturales of Potosi - Camille Salle8 Poverty, health, and imperial wealth in early modern Scotland - AndrewMackillop9 Compromise and adaptation in colonial taxation: Political-economicgovernance and inequality in Indonesia - Maarten Manse10 Imperial revenue and national welfare: The case of Britain - Gurminder K.BhambraPart III: Post-colonial legacies11 Making investor states: Haitian foreign debt and neocolonial economicgovernance in nineteenth-century France - Alexia Yates12 The lure of the welfare state following decolonisation in Kenya - LylaLatif13 From capitation taxes to tax havens: British fiscal policies in a colonialisland 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