For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of CivilizationMadison Books, 1999 - 541 páginas The 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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... empire pro- vides support for Paul Kennedy's thesis in his The Rise and Fall of Great Powers ( 1987 ) : The revenue systems become unable to support the empire after it is acquired . Egypt's collapse as an empire came during the reign ...
... empire pro- vides support for Paul Kennedy's thesis in his The Rise and Fall of Great Powers ( 1987 ) : The revenue systems become unable to support the empire after it is acquired . Egypt's collapse as an empire came during the reign ...
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... Empire was destroyed , we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted for so long . -Gibbon , Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire If we were living in the third century A.D. we would probably have lamented the terrible decline and ...
... Empire was destroyed , we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted for so long . -Gibbon , Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire If we were living in the third century A.D. we would probably have lamented the terrible decline and ...
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... Empire 1 , pp . 531-32 . Chapter 12 1. Montesquieu , Considerations , p . 169 . 2. Ferdinand Lot , The End of the ... Empire at the Time of its Decline , " in Carlo Cippola , ed . , Economic Decline of Empires ( London , 1970 ) , p . 72 ...
... Empire 1 , pp . 531-32 . Chapter 12 1. Montesquieu , Considerations , p . 169 . 2. Ferdinand Lot , The End of the ... Empire at the Time of its Decline , " in Carlo Cippola , ed . , Economic Decline of Empires ( London , 1970 ) , p . 72 ...
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Part I | 1 |
From Hanukkahs Glory to Goliaths | 35 |
The Mandate of Heaven | 45 |
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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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