For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of CivilizationThe very word taxes sends shivers up spines. Yet very few realize the tremendous impact that taxation has had on civilization. Charles Adams changes that in this newly revised and enlarged edition of his fascinating history. Taxation, says Adams, has been a catalyst of history, a powerful influence on and sometimes the direct cause of many of the famous events that have marched across the world's stage as empires collided and battled for the right to tax the loser. For Good and Evil is the first book to examine how taxation has been a key factor in world events. Like the Rosetta Stone - itself a tax document - the book sheds fresh light onto much of history. |
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The intellectual achievements of the Greeks were the real wonders of the ancient world . ... Immediately before the rise of ancient Greek democracy , tyrants and Draconians ruled Greece . The Greeks taught the world about the evils of ...
The intellectual achievements of the Greeks were the real wonders of the ancient world . ... Immediately before the rise of ancient Greek democracy , tyrants and Draconians ruled Greece . The Greeks taught the world about the evils of ...
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Greek historians compared Oriental despotisms with Greek democ- racy . Why were the Greeks a free people while the Persians lived under despotic rule ? The Greeks concluded that private property was a factor .
Greek historians compared Oriental despotisms with Greek democ- racy . Why were the Greeks a free people while the Persians lived under despotic rule ? The Greeks concluded that private property was a factor .
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The Greek view was probably expressed in its most refined state in an early - tenth - century encyclopedia called the Sui- das . Taxes were tyrannical , and hence illegal , it explained , if they were demanded by " arrogance and ...
The Greek view was probably expressed in its most refined state in an early - tenth - century encyclopedia called the Sui- das . Taxes were tyrannical , and hence illegal , it explained , if they were demanded by " arrogance and ...
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Part I | 1 |
From Hanukkahs Glory to Goliaths | 35 |
The Mandate of Heaven | 45 |
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The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing ... Jeremy Rifkin Pré-visualização indisponível - 2004 |
The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing ... Jeremy Rifkin Pré-visualização indisponível - 2004 |
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| Título | For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization |
| Autor | Charles Adams |
| Edição | 2, ilustrada |
| Editora | Madison Books, 1999 |
| Original de | Universidade de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 17 Ago 2007 |
| ISBN | 1568331231, 9781568331232 |
| Número de páginas | 541 páginas |
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