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Gauging a State: Excise Taxation, Practical Mathematics, and Cask Measuring in Seventeenth Century England

Sechrist, GuyUniversity of Cambridge2022

… alongside the practices of excise officers, or gaugers, to examine how the calculation of the contents of barrels became a fundamental part of the English state’s financial development throughout the seventeenth century. By championing the ubiquity of wooden barrels, their examination within the …

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