For Good and Evil

Charles Adams

doi:10.5771/9781568332642

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A fascinating history... —Kirkus Reviews ...an acidly witty guide. —Wall Street Journal

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Copyright year: 1992
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8191-8631-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-56833-264-2
Publisher: Madison Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 541
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Preface to Revised Edition No access
4. Introduction No access
1. 1. Ancient Egypt: The Ubiquitous Scribes No access
2. 2. The Rosetta Stone Speaks-and Tells a Tale of Taxes No access
3. 3. The Age of Terror-Taxation-and the Indomitable Tax Rebels of Ancient Israel No access
4. 4. Israel's Final Hour: From Hanukkah's Glory to Goliath's Triumph No access
5. 5. China: The Mandate of Heaven No access
6. 6. The Ingenious Greek: Tyranny and Taxes No access
7. 7. The Ingenious Greek: Public Revenue without Bureaucracy No access
1. 8. The Early Republic: The Citizens' War-Tax Era No access
2. 9. The Publicani Drive the Republic to Ruin No access
3. 10. Augustus: Master Tax Strategist No access
4. 11. Diocletian's New Order No access
5. 12. Rome Falls: Was It Tax Evasion? No access
1. 13. Islam: Death or Taxes for the Infidel No access
2. 14. Medieval Taxation: When Taxpayers Had God on Their Side No access
3. 15. The Jews: On the Road to the Final Solution No access
4. 16. Medieval England: How Englishmen Purchased Liberty with Taxes No access
1. 17. Russia: The Tax Road to Serfdom and the Soviets No access
2. 18. The Swiss: From William Tell to No-tell No access
3. 19. The Collapse of the Hercules of Europe No access
4. 20. How Cortés and Pizarro Found that Taxes Were the Chink in the Armor of the Aztec and Inca Rulers No access
5. 21. Taxes Forge Modern Germany No access
1. 22. The Devil's Tax System No access
2. 23. Many Revolts-One Revolution No access
1. 24. Why Queen Elizabeth I Was Called "Good Queen Bess" No access
2. 25. Taxes Caused the British Civil War No access
3. 26. Parliament Searches for a Better Tax No access
4. 27. The Decline of the Super-Dutch and the Rise of the Super-British No access
5. 28. The Enlightenment Had the Word on Taxation No access
1. 29. Tax Revolt in the Colonies No access
2. 30. The Tax Struggle for "a More Perfect Union" No access
3. 31. Was It Taxes, Rather than Slavery, that Caused the Civil War? No access
1. 32. The Tax that Beat Napoleon No access
2. 33. Scaffolding for Plunder No access
3. 34. How a Good Tax Goes Bad No access
4. 35. The Artful Dodger: Evasion and Avoidance No access
5. 36. Flight to the Havens: The Offshore World No access
6. 37. The Rise and Fall of the Miracle Economies No access
7. 38. What Constitutions Are Supposed to Do No access
8. 39. Learning from the Past No access
9. 40. Taming the Monster No access
10. 41. Half-Slave and Half-Free No access
Epilogue: The Foursquare No access Pages 481 - 484
Notes No access Pages 485 - 508
Selected Bibliography No access Pages 509 - 520
Illustration Credits No access Pages 521 - 522
Index No access Pages 523 - 540
About the Author No access Pages 541 - 541