Trusting Leviathan: the politics of taxation in Britain, 1799-1914

Abstract

List of illustrations List of figures List of tables 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 Bibliography Index.