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Trusting Leviathan - The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799-1914 (Paperback)
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Trusting Leviathan - The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799-1914 (Paperback)
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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 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.
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