Customs and Excise
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-925921-2 (ISBN)
Asis book traces the growth of customs and excise, and their integral role in shaping the framework of industrial England; including state power, technical advance, and the evolution of a consumer society. Central to this structure was the development of two economies - one legal and one illicit. If there was a unique English pathway of industrialization, it was less a distinct entrepreneurial and techno-centric culture, than one predominantly defined within an institutional framework spearheaded by the excise and a wall of tariffs. This process reached its peak by the end of the 1770s. The structure then quickly started to crumble under the weight of the fiscal-military state, and Pitt's calculated policy of concentrating industrial policy around cotton, potteries, and iron - at the expense of other taxed industries. The breakthrough of the new political economy was the erosion of the illicit economy; the smugglers' free trade now became the state's most powerful weapon in the war against non-legal trade. If at the beginning of the period covered by this book state administration was predominantly deregulated and industry regulated, by the close the reverse was the case.
Abbreviations ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction ; PART I: CONSUMING THE PEOPLE ; 1. The Emergence of Public Credit: War, Revenue, and High Politics ; 2. The "Consumptibility" of Goods: Customs, Excise, and Trade ; 3. The Equitable Tax? ; 4. Liberty, Property, and the Excise ; PART II: THE "DEVIL'S REMEDY" ; 5. Delusion? Public Credit, Trust, and the Excise ; 6. The Introduction of the Excise ; 7. "His leering eyes gives such a look": The World of Excise ; PART III: AN IMPOLITE AND COMMERCIAL PEOPLE - THE COMMON ECONOMY ; 8. Life on the Waterfront ; 9. Pilfering, Custom Fees, and Renumeration ; 10. Smuggling ; 11. Free Trade, Transport, and Concealment ; PART IV: EXCISE, FRAUD, AND PRODUCTION ; 12. Drink and Food ; 13. Candles, Soap, Salt, Starch, Leather, Paper, Textiles, and Glass ; PART V: SHAPING AND REGULATING THE MARKET ; 14. Measurement, Instrumentation, and Alcohol Standards ; 15. Revenue, Metrology, and Casks ; 16. The Incarceration, Adulteration, and Policing of Taxed Goods ; PART VI: DISMANTLING THE FISCAL-MILITARY STATE ; 17. The Limits of Taxation and the Politics of Representation ; 18. Revenue, "Old Corruption", and Manufacturing Interests ; 19. "Simplicity, Uniformity, and Perspicuity" ; 20. "The Calcio Millennium" ; Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.7.2003 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 164 x 242 mm |
| Gewicht | 770 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-925921-6 / 0199259216 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-925921-2 / 9780199259212 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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