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Foreword | |
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Preface to Revised Edition | |
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Introduction | |
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Taxes: What They Are and Where They Began | |
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Ancient Egypt: The Ubiquitous Scribes | |
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The Rosetta Stone Speaks--and Tells a Tale of Taxes | |
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The Age of Terror-Taxation--and the Indomitable Tax Rebels of Ancient Israel | |
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Israel's Final Hour: From Hanukkah's Glory to Goliath's Triumph | |
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China: The Mandate of Heaven | |
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The Ingenious Greek: Tyranny and Taxes | |
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The Ingenious Greek: Public Revenue without Bureaucracy | |
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The Kaleidoscopic Romans | |
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The Early Republic: The Citizens' War-Tax Era | |
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The Publicani Drive the Republic to Ruin | |
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Augustus: Master Tax Strategist | |
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Diocletian's New Order | |
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Rome Falls: Was It Tax Evasion? | |
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The Middle Ages | |
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Islam: Death or Taxes for the Infidel | |
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Medieval Taxation: When Taxpayers Had God on Their Slide | |
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The Jews: On the Road to the Final Solution | |
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Medieval England: How Englishmen Purchased Liberty with Taxes | |
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Russia, Switzerland, Spain, and Germany | |
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Russia: The Tax Road to Serfdom and the Soviets | |
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The Swiss: From William Tell to No-tell | |
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The Collapse of the Hercules of Europe | |
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How Cortes and Pizarro Found that Taxes Were the Chink in the Armor of the Aztec and Inca Rulers | |
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Taxes Forge Modern Germany | |
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The Ancien Regime | |
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The Devil's Tax System | |
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Many Revolts--One Revolution | |
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After Magna Carta | |
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Why Queen Elizabeth I Was Called "Good Queen Bess" | |
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Taxes Caused the British Civil War | |
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Parliament Searches for a Better Tax | |
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The Decline of the Super-Dutch and the Rise of the Super-British | |
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The Enlightenment Had the Word on Taxation | |
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The Rocky Road of Early American Taxation | |
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Tax Revolt in the Colonies | |
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The Tax Struggle for "a More Perfect Union" | |
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Was It Taxes, Rather than Slavery, that Caused the Civil War? | |
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The Monster that Laid the Golden Egg | |
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The Tax that Beat Napoleon | |
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Scaffolding for Plunder | |
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How a Good Tax Goes Bad | |
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The Artful Dodger: Evasion and Avoidance | |
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Flight to the Havens: The Offshore World | |
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The Rise and Fall of the Miracle Economies | |
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What Constitutions Are Supposed to Do | |
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Learning from the Past | |
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Taming the Monster | |
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Half-Slave and Half-Free | |
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Epilogue: The Foursquare | |
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Notes | |
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Selected Bibliography | |
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Illustration Credits | |
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Index | |
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About the Author | |