Imperial Inequalities - The Politics of Economic Governance Across European Empires

Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext This volume examines the unequal politics of economic governance across European empires and the ongoing legacies of such histories. It focuses on processes of colonial taxation and, primarily, national welfare to examine the ways in which today's global inequalities are the result of such connected histories. Zusammenfassung This volume examines the unequal politics of economic governance across European empires and the ongoing legacies of such histories. It focuses on processes of colonial taxation and, primarily, national welfare to examine the ways in which today’s global inequalities are the result of such connected histories. -- .

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• Authors: Gurminder Mcclure Bhambra
• Assisted by: Gurminder Bhambra (Editor), Gurminder K. Bhambra (Editor), Julia McClure (Editor), McClure Julia (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781526166142
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-6614-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Postcolonial International Studies; Postcolonial International Stu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Historical Geography, Colonialism & imperialism, Welfare economics, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism