Trusting Leviathan : the politics of taxation in Britain, 1799-1914
Professor Martin Daunton's major work explores the politics of taxation in the 'long' nineteenth century. Combining research with a comprehensive survey of existing knowledge, this lucid and wide-ranging book examines the complex financial relationship between the state and its citizens in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
Print Book, English, 2001
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2001
History
xiii, 438 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521803724, 9780521037488, 0521803721, 0521037484
46616169
List of illustrations; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. Trust, collective action and the state; 2. 'The great tax eater': the limits of the fiscal-military state, 1793–1842; 3. 'Philosophical administration and constitutional control': the emergence of the Gladstonian fiscal constitution; 4. 'A cheap purchase of future security': establishing the income tax, 1842–60; 5. 'Our real war chest': the national debt, war and empire; 6. 'The sublime rule of proportion': ability to pay and the social structure, 1842–1906; 7. 'The minimum of irritation': fiscal administration and civil society, 1842–1914; 8. 'The right of a dead hand': death and taxation; 9. 'Athenian democracy': the fiscal system and the local state, 1835–1914; 10. 'The end of our taxation tether': the limits of the Gladstonian fiscal constitution, 1894–1906; 11. 'The modern income tax': remaking the fiscal constitution, 1906–14; 12. Conclusion; Appendix: chancellors of the Exchequer, 1841–1914; Bibliography; Index.