Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Changing strategies and global power in the long eighteenth century -- Eighteenth-century realities and historiographical approaches -- Administering the fiscal-military state : ordinary revenues : trusting in a consumers world -- Increasing...

"Over the last century, countries have typically followed either the United States model or the United Kingdom model in taxing corporate income. In the U.S., corporations are subject to tax as separate entities under what is called the classical system. Income is taxed first to the corporation...

1. Introduction -- 2 Fiscal Context -- 3. Visual Satire Context -- 4. Income Tax -- 5. Indirect Tax -- 6. Politics Of Personality -- 7. Estate Tax -- 8. Free Trade -- 9. Conclusion -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2.