The Dreadful Monster and its Poor Relations: Taxing, Spending and the United Kingdom, 1707-2021 - Couverture rigide

Hoppit, Julian

 
9780241434420: The Dreadful Monster and its Poor Relations: Taxing, Spending and the United Kingdom, 1707-2021
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ISBN 10 : 0241434424 ISBN 13 : 9780241434420
Editeur : Allen Lane, 2021

Synopsis

A DAILY TELEGRAPH AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021

'An invaluable primer to some of the underlying tensions behind contemporary political debate' Financial Times

It has always been an important part of British self-image to see the United Kingdom as an ancient, organic and sensibly managed place, in striking contrast to the convulsions of other European countries. To a limited degree this is true, but, as Julian Hoppit makes clear in this fascinating and surprising book, beneath the complacent surface the United Kingdom has in fact been in a constant, often very tense argument with itself about how it should be run and, most significantly, who should pay for what.

The book takes its argument from an eighteenth century cartoon which shows the central state as the 'Dreadful Monster', gorging itself at the dinner table on all the taxes it can grab. Meanwhile the 'Poor Relations' - Scotland, Wales and Ireland, both poor because of tax but also poor in the sense of needing special treatment - are viewed in London as an endless 'drain on the state'. With drastically different levels of prosperity, population, industry, agriculture and accessibility between the United Kingdom's different nations, what is a fair basis for paying for the state?

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À propos de l?auteur

Julian Hoppit is Astor Professor of British History at University College London. He is the author of Risks and Failure in English Business, 1700-1800, A Land of Liberty?: England 1689-1727 and Britain's Political Economies: Parliament and Economic Life, 1660-1800.

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Éditeur
Allen Lane
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0241434424
ISBN 13 
9780241434420
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
Buchpark GmbH
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9780141992266: The Dreadful Monster and its Poor Relations: Taxing, Spending and the United Kingdom, 1707-2021

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0141992263 ISBN 13 :  9780141992266
Editeur : Penguin, 2022
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