Table of Contents

Introduction - Duncan Needham
Taxing London and the British fiscal state, 1660-1815 - Julian Hoppit
Rents, squalor, and the land question: progress and poverty - Richard Rodger
Marine insurers, the City of London, and financing the Napoleonic Wars - Adrian Leonard
The political economy of Sir Robert Peel - Charles Read
Champagne capitalism: France's adaptation to Britain's global hegemony, 1830-1880 - David Todd
Imperial Germany, Great Britain and the political economy of the gold standard, 1867-1914 - Sabine Schneider
The 1848 revolution in Prussia: a financial interpretation - Sean Eddie
Knowledge, contestation and authority in the Eurodollar market, 1959-1964 - Seung-Woo Kim
Continuity and change in British Conservative taxation policy, c. 1964-88 - Adrian Williamson
Britain since the 1970s: a transition to neoliberalism? - James Tomlinson
Maplin: the Treasury and London's third airport in the 1970s - Duncan Needham
Workfare and the reinvention of the social in America and Britain, c. 1965 to 1985 - Bernhard Rieger
Charity and international humanitarianism in postwar Britain - Matthew Hilton
Discounting time - Martin Chick
The material politics of energy disruption: managing shortages amidst rising expectations, Britain 1930s-60s - Hiroki Shin - Frank Trentmann
The published writings of Martin Daunton

About the Author

A. B. Leonard is Associate Director of the Centre for Financial History at the University of Cambridge. A. B. Leonard is Associate Director of the Centre for Financial History at the University of Cambridge. CHARLES READ is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in History and an Affiliated Lecturer in Economics at the University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow and College Lecturer at Corpus Christi College.