Customs and Excise
Trade, Production, and Consumption in England 1640-1845
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 July 2003
- ISBN 9780199259212
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages412 pages
- Size 242x164x26 mm
- Weight 770 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Ashworth traces the growth of customs and excise, and their integral role in shaping the framework of industrial England. He examines their influence on elements such as state power, technical advance, and the evolution of a consumer society. If there was a unique pathway of industrialization, it was less a distinct entrepreneurial and technocentric culture, than one predominantly defined within an institutional framework spearheaded by the excise and a wall of tariffs.
MoreLong description:
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.
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Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Consuming the People
The Emergence of Public Credit: War, Revenue, and High Politics
The "Consumptibility" of Goods: Customs, Excise, and Trade
The Equitable Tax?
Liberty, Property, and the Excise
Part II: The "Devil's Remedy"
Delusion? Public Credit, Trust, and the Excise
The Introduction of the Excise
"His leering eyes gives such a look": The World of Excise
Part III: An Impolite and Commercial People - the Common Economy
Life on the Waterfront
Pilfering, Custom Fees, and Renumeration
Smuggling
Free Trade, Transport, and Concealment
Part IV: Excise, Fraud, and Production
Drink and Food
Candles, Soap, Salt, Starch, Leather, Paper, Textiles, and Glass
Part V: Shaping and Regulating the Market
Measurement, Instrumentation, and Alcohol Standards
Revenue, Metrology, and Casks
The Incarceration, Adulteration, and Policing of Taxed Goods
Part VI: Dismantling the Fiscal-Military State
The Limits of Taxation and the Politics of Representation
Revenue, "Old Corruption", and Manufacturing Interests
"Simplicity, Uniformity, and Perspicuity"
"The Calcio Millennium"
Index
