Martin Daunton.

Martin Daunton. Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799-1914 of recent origin York: Cambridge University Press. 2001 Pp xiii, 438 $5500 ISBN 0-521-80372-1

Whether we like it or not, taxation is about rule and government is not possible without taxation. Thus, any attempt to explain the increase operation, and possible decline of the state, must inevitably be based in succession an understanding of the fiscal policies and practices from which it is underpinned. Martin Daunton's achievement in this subject of attention of British taxation between the introduction of Pitt's income tax

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