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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 | |