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• Finance, Public -- Great Britain -- History -- 1815-1918

• Liberalism and the Social Problem (second edition; London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909), by Winston Churchill (Gutenberg text)

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• Calendar of Treasury Books (32 volumes covering 1660-1718, published 1904-1962), by Great Britain Public Record Office, ed. by William Arthur Shaw and F. H. Slingsby (full serial archives)
• Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers (5 volumes covering 1729-1745, published 1897-1903), by Great Britain Public Record Office, ed. by William Arthur Shaw (full serial archives)

• The Politics of Defence Budgeting: A Study of Organisation and Resource Allocation in the United Kingdom and the United States (Washington: National Defense University Press, 1983), by Michael D. Hobkirk (PDF at dtic.mil)

• The Early English Customs System: A Documentary Study of the Institutional and Economic History of the Customs From the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century (Harvard Economic Studies v18; Cambridge: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1918), by Norman Scott Brien Gras (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Overseas Trade of London: Exchequer Customs Accounts, 1480-1, ed. by Henry S. Cobb (HTML at British History Online)

• Liberalism and the Social Problem (second edition; London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909), by Winston Churchill (Gutenberg text)
• The World, Its Debts and the Rich Men: A Speech (1922), by H. G. Wells (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Essay on Tea, Considered as Pernicious to Health, Obstructing Industry, and Impoverishing the Nation; With a Short Account of its Growth, and Great Consumption in These Kingdoms, With Several Political Reflections (Excerpted from author's Journal of Eight Days Journey from Portsmouth to Kingston upon Thames; 1756), by Jonas Hanway (page images at HathiTrust)

• The World, Its Debts and the Rich Men: A Speech (1922), by H. G. Wells (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Inhabitants of London in 1638, ed. by Thomas Cyril Dale (HTML at British History Online)

• A Letter to an English Member of Parliament, From a Gentleman in Scotland, Concerning the Slavish Dependencies, Which a Great Part of That Nation is Still Kept Under, by Superiorities, Wards, Reliefs, and Other Remains of the Feudal Law, and by Clanships (London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1746), by John Willison (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Discourse of Foreign War; With an Account of All the Taxations Upon This Kingdom, From the Conquest to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; Also a List of the Confederates from Henry I to the End of the Reign of the Said Queen, Shewing Which Have Prov'd the Most Beneficial to England (London: Printed for H. Mortlock, 1690), by Robert Cotton (multiple formats at Google)
• A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions, by William Petty (text at McMaster)

• Two Early London Subsidy Rolls, ed. by Eilert Ekwall (HTML at British History Online)
• Two Tudor Subsidy Assessment Rolls for the City of London, 1541 and 1582, ed. by R. G. Lang (HTML at British History Online)

• Suffolk in 1327: Being a Subsidy Return (Suffolk Green Books #9, v. 11; Woodbridge: G. Booth, 1906), by Great Britain Exchequer, ed. by S. H. A. H. (Sydenham Henry Augustus Hervey)
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Three Earliest Subsidies for the County of Sussex in the years 1296, 1327, 1332 (Sussex Record Society publications v10; London: Pub. by the Society, 1910), ed. by William Hudson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML at British History Online

• Yorkshire Lay Subsidy, Being a Fifteenth Collected in 30 Edward I. (1301) (1897), by Great Britain Exchequer, ed. by William Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• Departmental Committee on Taxation and Regulation of Road Vehicles in Great Britain and Ireland: Interim Report (London: HMSO, 1920), by Great Britain Ministry of Transport (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Struggles of a Book Against Excessive Taxation (London, ca. 1850), by Charles Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Intolerable Inquisition? Reflections on the Law of Tax (Hamlyn Lectures, #33; London: Stevens and Sons, 1981), by Hubert Holmes Monroe (PDF in the UK)

• Finance and Trade Under Edward III, ed. by George Unwin (HTML at British History Online)

• Medieval Merchants and Money: Essays in Honour of James L. Bolton (London: Institute of Historical Research, c2016), ed. by Martin Allen and Matthew P. Davies (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth Century Ch'ing China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), by Madeleine Zelin (HTML at UC Press)

• The Danegeld in France (Augustana Library Publications #10; 1923), by Einar Joranson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The New Tax Law of Indiana and the Science of Taxation: A Series of Letters Published in the Indianapolis Sentinel, August 14, 1891 to April 20, 1892, With Statistical Appendices (Indianapolis: Indianapolis Print. Co, 1892), by Jacob Piatt Dunn (multiple formats at Indiana)

• The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Jonathan Barth (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Historia Financiera de Bolivia (in Spanish; La Paz: Talleres Gráficos Marinoni de A. Chiocchetti, 1916), by Casto Rojas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth Century Ch'ing China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), by Madeleine Zelin (HTML at UC Press)

• Poverty and Un-British Rule in India (London: S. Sonnenschein and Co., 1901), by Dadabhai Naoroji (page images at HathiTrust)

• Financial Catechism and History of the Financial Legislation of the United States, From 1862 to 1882 (Chicago: Franklin printing co., 1882), by S. M. Brice (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Works of Alexander Hamilton (Constitutional edition, 12 volumes; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, ca. 1903), by Alexander Hamilton, ed. by Henry Cabot Lodge
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (mislabeled as 8): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII: multiple formats at archive.org

• A Resource of War: The Credit of the Government Made Immediately Available: History of the Legal Tender Paper Money Issued During the Great Rebellion, Being a Loan Without Interest and a National Currency (Buffalo: Express Printing Co., 1869), by E. G. Spaulding (page images at MOA)
• A Critical Examination of Our Financial Policy During the Southern Rebellion, by Simon Newcomb (page images at MOA)

• A Populist Humbug Exploded: Refutation of the Alleged "Seven Financial Conspiracies"; Incurring and Paying the War Debt; Creating and Redeeming the Greenback; Where We Stood and Where We Stand; Fact Against Fiction (ca. 1896), by J. W. Babcock
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• American Public Finance and Financial Services, 1700-1815 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Edwin J. Perkins (PDF at Ohio State)

• Cambria Triumphans: or, Brittain in its Perfect Lustre, Shewing the Origen and Antiquity of That Illustrious Nation (2 volumes in 1; London: Printed for A. Crooke, 1661), by Percy Enderbie
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
  • 1810 reprint: page images at Wellcome Collection
• Critical and Historical Essays, by Thomas Macaulay, ed. by Alexander James Grieve
  • volume 1: Gutenberg text
  • volume 2: Gutenberg text
• The Evolution of an Empire: A Brief Historical Sketch of England, by Mary Platt Parmele (Gutenberg text)
• The Growth of British Policy (Cambridge: University Press, 1922), by J. R. Seeley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: English (v4 of a larger series; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1908), by Charles Morris (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: English (Los Angeles: Angelus University, c1908), by Charles Morris (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• The History of England, From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Abdication of James the Second, 1688 (Boston: Phillips Sampson and Co., 1856), by David Hume (page images at MOA)
• The Leading Facts of English History (revised edition, c1912), by D. H. Montgomery (Gutenberg text)
• Letters From Lady Jane Coke to Her Friend Mrs. Eyre at Derby, 1747-1758 (London: S. Sonnenschein, 1899), by Lady Jane Coke, ed. by Florence A. Monica Rathborne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Short History of England (London: Chatto and Windus, 1917), by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Stories From English History, by Alfred John Church
  • Part I (From Julius Caesar to the Black Prince): illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics
  • Part II (From Richard II to Charles I): illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics
  • Part III (From the Lord Protector to Victoria): illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics
• The Story of the Empire (London: George Newnes, 1902), by Edward Salmon (PDF at djm.cc)
• Historical Antiquities, in Two Books: The First Treating in General of Great-Brettain and Ireland; The Second Containing Particular Remarks Concerning Cheshire (London: Printed by W. L. for R. Clavell, 1673), ed. by Peter Leycester (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The History of England: A Study in Political Evolution, by A. F. Pollard (Gutenberg text)
• A Parallel History of France and England; Consisting of Outlines and Dates (London: Macmillan and Co., 1871), by Charlotte M. Yonge (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Warfare in England (London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, c1912), by Hilaire Belloc (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Discourse of Foreign War; With an Account of All the Taxations Upon This Kingdom, From the Conquest to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; Also a List of the Confederates from Henry I to the End of the Reign of the Said Queen, Shewing Which Have Prov'd the Most Beneficial to England (London: Printed for H. Mortlock, 1690), by Robert Cotton (multiple formats at Google)
• Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities (2 volumes; London: James Sangster and Co., ca. 1860), ed. by Charles Knight
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

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