State and Market in Victorian Britain : War, Welfare and Capitalism

by Daunton, Martin

• ISBN13: 9781843833833
• ISBN10: 1843833832
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-19
• Publisher: Boydell Pr

Summary

Traces the effects and consequences of radical economic change, moral, social, and fiscal, in the Victorian period.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
The Fiscal-Military State and the Napoleonic Wars	p. 40
Trusting Leviathan: the Politics of Taxation, 1815-1914	p. 61
Taxation and Representation in the Victorian City	p. 89
The Material Politics of Natural Monopoly: Gas in Victorian Britain	p. 111
Tax Transfers: Britain and its Empire, 1848-1914	p. 128
'Gentlemanly Capitalism' and British Industry, 1820-1914	p. 148
Inheritance and Succession in the City of London in the Nineteenth Century	p. 179
Firm and Family in the City of London in the Nineteenth Century: the Case of F. G. Dalgety	p. 196
Britain and Globalization: Creating a Global Order, 1850-1914	p. 220
Payment and Participation: Welfare and State Formation in Britain, 1900-1951	p. 254
Mutuality and State Formation: Britain and the United States, c. 1890-1940	p. 290
Index	p. 317
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