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).
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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
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