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Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1790-1914 by Martin Daunton

Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1790-1914

Martin Daunton

456 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

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Professor Martin Daunton's major work of original synthesis explores the politics of taxation in the "long" nineteenth century. In 1799, income tax stood at 20% of national income; by the outbreak of the First World War, it was 10%. This equitable...

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