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020 $a0819186317 (cloth : alk. paper) :$c$29.95
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050 00 $aHJ2250$b.A323 1993
100 1 $aAdams, Charles,$d1930-
245 10 $aFor good and evil :$bthe impact of taxes on the course of civilization /$cCharles Adams.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bMadison Books ;$aLanham, Md. :$bDistributed by National Book Network,$cc1993.
300 $axxi, 530 p. :$bill., map ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 505-517) and index.
505 1 $aAncient Egypt: the ubiquitous scribes-- The Rosetta Stone speaks-and tells a tale of taxes -- The age of terror-taxation - and the indomitable tax rebels of ancient Israel -- Israel's final hour: from Hanukkah's glory to Goliath's triumph -- The ingenious Greek: tyranny and taxes -- The ingenious Greek: public revenue without bureaucracy -- The early republic: the citizens' war-tax era -- The publicani drive the republic to ruin -- Augustus: master tax strategist -- Diocletian's new order -- Rome falls: was it tax evasion? -- Islam: death or taxes for the infidel -- Medieval taxation: when taxpayers had gone on their side -- The Jews: on the road to the final solution -- Medieval England: how Englishmen purchased liberty with taxes -- Russia: the tax road to serfdom and the Soviets -- The Swiss: from William Tell to no-tell -- The collapse of the Hercules of Europe -- How Cortes found that taxes were the chink in Montezuma's armor -- Taxes forge modern Germany --
505 1 $aThe devil's tax system -- Many revolts - one revolution -- The true sovereign of England: the king or the common law? -- Parliament searches for a better tax -- The decline of the super-Dutch and the rise of the super-British -- The Enlightenment had the word on taxation -- Tax revolt in the colonies -- The tax struggle for "a more perfect union" -- Was it taxes, rather than slavery, that caused the Civil War? -- The tax that beat Napoleon -- Scaffolding for plunder -- How a good tax goes bad -- The artful dodger: evasion and avoidance -- Flight to the havens: the offshore world -- The miracle economies -- What constitutions are supposed to do -- Learning from the past -- Taming the monster.
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