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.

Gurminder K. Bhambra is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex

Julia McClure is Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval and Early Modern Global History in the School of Humanities, University of Glasgow