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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... followed by banish- ment to a desolate part of Arabia . This was no idle threat . Ancient rec- ords speak of a ... followed the same course of a good tax going bad . In the early modern period , the mighty Spanish Empire collapsed when ...
... followed by banish- ment to a desolate part of Arabia . This was no idle threat . Ancient rec- ords speak of a ... followed the same course of a good tax going bad . In the early modern period , the mighty Spanish Empire collapsed when ...
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... followed and he lost the Mandate of Heaven . Within ten years he was deposed . Legend handed down from this period recounts how the wife of a farmer , who had been drafted to work on the Great Wall , went to visit him at the work site ...
... followed and he lost the Mandate of Heaven . Within ten years he was deposed . Legend handed down from this period recounts how the wife of a farmer , who had been drafted to work on the Great Wall , went to visit him at the work site ...
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... followed the first . . . and the land was vexed with much violence arising from the collection of royal taxes . ' ( Eleventh - cen- tury chronicle ) Knights were required to spend forty days a year in the service of the king , providing ...
... followed the first . . . and the land was vexed with much violence arising from the collection of royal taxes . ' ( Eleventh - cen- tury chronicle ) Knights were required to spend forty days a year in the service of the king , providing ...
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Part I | 1 |
From Hanukkahs Glory to Goliaths | 35 |
The Mandate of Heaven | 45 |
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