| Trusting Leviathan Contributor(s): Daunton, Martin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521803721 ISBN-13: 9780521803724 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $148.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2001 Annotation: Professor Martin Daunton's major study of the politics of taxation in the 'long' nineteenth century examines the complex financial relationship between the State and its citizens. In 1799, taxes stood at 20 per cent of national income; by the outbreak of the First World War, they had fallen to less than half of their previous level. The process of fiscal containment resulted in a high level of trust in the financial rectitude of the government and in the equity of the tax system, contributing to the political legitimacy of the British state in the second half of the nineteenth century. As a result, the State was able to fund the massive enterprises of war and welfare in the twentieth century. Combining new research with a comprehensive survey of existing knowledge, this lucid and wide-ranging book represents a major contribution to our understanding of Victorian and Edwardian Britain. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Taxation - General - Political Science - Business & Economics | Economic History |
| Dewey: 336.200 |
| LCCN: 2001025946 |
| Physical Information: 1.26" H x 6.35" W x 9.01" (1.78 lbs) 454 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Publisher Description: Professor Martin Daunton's major work of original synthesis explores the politics of taxation in the long nineteenth century. In 1799, income tax stood at 20% of national income; by the outbreak of the First World War, it was 10%. This equitable exercise in fiscal containment lent the government a high level of legitimacy, allowing it to fund war and welfare in the twentieth century. Combining new research with a comprehensive survey of existing knowledge, this book examines the complex financial relationship between the State and its citizens. |
Contributor Bio(s): Daunton, Martin: - Martin Daunton, FBA, is a fellow of Churchill College and professor of economic history at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Progress and Poverty: An Economic and Social History of Britain, 1700 1850 (1995), and editor of Volume III of The Cambridge Urban History of Britain (2001). |