For Good and Evil
The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization
1st Edition
Published on 27. December 1992
318 pages
978-1-56833-264-2 (ISBN)
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A fascinating history... ?Kirkus Reviews ...an acidly witty guide. ?Wall Street Journal
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword Alvin Rabushku
- Preface to Revised Edition
- Introduction
- Part I: Taxes: What They Are and Where They Began
- 1. Ancient Egypt: The Ubiquitous Scribes
- 2. The Rosetta Stone Speaks-and Tells a Tale of Taxes
- 3. The Age of Terror-Taxation-and the Indomitable Tax Rebels of Ancient Israel
- 4. Israel's Final Hour: From Hanukkah's Glory to Goliath's Triumph
- 5. China: The Mandate of Heaven
- 6. The Ingenious Greek: Tyranny and Taxes
- 7. The Ingenious Greek: Public Revenue without Bureaucracy
- Part II: The Kaleidoscopic Romans
- 8. The Early Republic: The Citizens' War-Tax Era
- 9. The Publicani Drive the Republic to Ruin
- 10. Augustus: Master Tax Strategist
- 11. Diocletian's New Order
- 12. Rome Falls: Was It Tax Evasion?
- Part III: The Middle Ages
- 13. Islam: Death or Taxes for the Infidel
- 14. Medieval Taxation: When Taxpayers Had God on Their Side
- 15. The Jews: On the Road to the Final Solution
- 16. Medieval England: How Englishmen Purchased Liberty with Taxes
- Part IV: Russia, Switzerland, Spain, and Germany
- 17. Russia: The Tax Road to Serfdom and the Soviets
- 18. The Swiss: From William Tell to No-tell
- 19. The Collapse of the Hercules of Europe
- 20. How Cortés and Pizarro Found that Taxes Were the Chink in the Armor of the Aztec and Inca Rulers
- 21. Taxes Forge Modern Germany
- Part V: The Ancien Régime
- 22. The Devil's Tax System
- 23. Many Revolts-One Revolution
- Part VI: After Magna Carta
- 24. Why Queen Elizabeth I Was Called "Good Queen Bess
- 25. Taxes Caused the British Civil War
- 26. Parliament Searches for a Better Tax
- 27. The Decline of the Super-Dutch and the Rise of the Super-British
- 28. The Enlightenment Had the Word on Taxation
- Part VII: The Rocky Road of Early American Taxation
- 29. Tax Revolt in the Colonies
- 30. The Tax Struggle for "a More Perfect Union
- 31. Was It Taxes, Rather than Slavery, that Caused the Civil War?
- Part VIII: The Monster that Laid the Golden Egg
- 32. The Tax that Beat Napoleon
- 33. Scaffolding for Plunder
- 34. How a Good Tax Goes Bad
- 35. The Artful Dodger: Evasion and Avoidance
- 36. Flight to the Havens: The Offshore World
- 37. The Rise and Fall of the Miracle Economies
- 38. What Constitutions Are Supposed to Do
- 39. Learning from the Past
- 40. Taming the Monster
- 41. Half-Slave and Half-Free
- Epilogue: The Foursquare
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- About the Author
