"Food consumption and nutrition are historically among the most characteristic features of inequality in living standards driven by socio-economic, gender, generational and geographical reasons. Nutrition directly impacts mortality, life expectancy, height and illness, and thus becomes a good...

Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Changing strategies and global power in the long eighteenth century -- Eighteenth-century realities and historiographical approaches -- Administering the fiscal-military state : ordinary revenues : trusting in a consumers world -- Increasing...

1. Changing strategies and global power in the long eighteenth century -- 2. Eighteenth-century realities and historiographical approaches -- 3. Administering the fiscal-military state : ordinary revenues : trusting in a consumers world -- 4. Increasing revenue through administration change :...