This book offers a wholesale reinterpretation of both the introduction of excise taxation in Great Britain in the 1640s and the genesis of the Financial Revolut

When students gathered in a London coffeehouse and smoked tobacco; when Yorkshire women sipped sugar-infused tea; or when a Glasgow family ate a bowl of Indian

An innovative account of how thousands of acts of parliament sought to improve economic activity during the early industrial revolution.

Leading economic historians present a groundbreaking series of country case studies exploring the formation of fiscal states in Eurasia.

Examines the politics of taxation in the broadest sense, in the villages, courts and parliament of England during 1558-1714. Covers an overview of taxation and