Customs and Excise

Trade, Production, and Consumption in England, 1640-1845
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-925921-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 781 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ashworth, William J.

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Handelsabkommen, Wirtschaftsorganisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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