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Intended for students and 6th-formers studying 18th- and 19th-century British history, this text presents an economic and social history of Britain from 1700-1850.

History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- Conditions économiques --- Conditions sociales --- Conditions économiques --- E-books --- Great Britain - Economic conditions - 18th century --- Great Britain - Economic conditions - 19th century --- Great Britain - Social conditions - 18th century --- Great Britain - Social conditions - 19th century

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In 1914, taxation was about 10 per cent of GNP; by 1979, taxes had risen to almost half of the total national income, and contributed to the rise of Thatcher. Martin Daunton continues the story begun in Trusting Leviathan, offering an analysis of the politics of acceptance of huge tax rises after the First World War and asks why it did not provoke the same levels of discontent in Britain as it did on the continent. He further questions why acceptance gave way to hostility at the end of this period. Daunton views taxes as the central driving force for equity or efficiency. As such he provides a detailed discussion of their potential in providing revenue for the state, and their use in shaping the social structure and influencing economic growth. Just Taxes places taxation in its proper place, at the centre of modern British history.

Taxation --- Impôt --- History --- Histoire --- Fiscal policy --- -Taxation --- -Duties --- Fee system (Taxation) --- Tax policy --- Tax reform --- Taxation, Incidence of --- Taxes --- Finance, Public --- Revenue --- Economic policy --- -History --- -Government policy --- Arts and Humanities --- -Fiscal policy --- Impôt --- Duties --- Government policy --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- E-books

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"The history of the post office involves many of the most significant themes in the social, economic and political history of Britain. Daunton traces the development of the post office as an institution and as a business in the 19th and 20th centuries and places the debates surrounding its history, performances and failings in a longer historical perspective and in the broader context of British national history."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Postal service --- History. --- Great Britain. --- England and Wales. --- GPO (Great Britain) --- G.P.O. (Great Britain) --- British Post Office --- Post Office (Great Britain)

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In the course of the nineteenth century, the economic structure and policies of Britain were remade, as the costs of the 'fiscal-military' state which fought successful wars against France were cut, and monopolies gave way to free trade, while monetary policy was determined by the automatic operation of the gold standard. However, the result was not, as might be expected, the triumph of 'laissez faire'; there was continued concern about the moral and social consequences of economic change. In this magisterial collection, Professor MARTIN DAUNTON looks at the connections between state and market in this period, and the ways in which all society was affected. He argues that central to the politics of Victorian Britain was determining where the line should be drawn between private profit and social costs - a task that implicated the courts and politicians in defining the nature of capitalist society. The outcome was not determined by 'gentlemanly capitalists' comprising landowners and financiers who dominated the state and denied a voice to industrialists and their workers. Rather, the choices reflected the interplay between all interests, including those of the state itself. MARTIN DAUNTON is Master of Trinity Hall and Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge.

Great Britain --- Economic policy. --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- HISTORY / Modern / General.

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