The Success of English Land Tax Administration 1643-1733

• Main Author: Pierpoint, Stephen (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance,
• Subjects: Finance-History.; Accounting.; Financial History.; Financial Accounting.

This book provides a thorough review of early English land taxes of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It is a polemical work which is critical of the institutional English state narratives including Brewer's 'Sinews of Power' and North and Weingast's 'credible...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Legislation for a New Tax on Land
• Chapter 3: Fiscal innovation and Local Response 1643-1680
• Chapter 4: After the Glorious Revolution
• Chapter 5: Four Detailed Examples of Post-Revolutionary Administrative Improvement and Resilience
• Chapter 6: Conclusion.