☆Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799-1914

 

Martin Daunton

☆Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799-1914

Cambridge University Press, 2007

 

 

1. Trust, collective action and the state
2. ‘The great tax eater’: the limits of the fiscal-military state, 1799–1842
3. ‘Philosophical administration and constitutional control’

    - the emergence of the Gladstonian fiscal constitution
4. ‘A cheap purchase of future security’: establishing the income tax, 1842–1860
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, 1906–1914

12. Conclusion