For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization
Charles Adams
Author
March 20th, 2004
TAXES!
The very word taxes sends shivers up spines. Yet very few realize the
tremendous impact that taxation has had on civilization. Charles Adams
changes that in this newly revised and enlarged edition of his
fascinating history. Taxation, says Adams, has been a catalyst of
history, a powerful influence on and sometimes the direct cause of many
of the famous events that have marched across the world's stage as
empires collided and battled for the right to tax the loser.
For Good and Evil is the first book to examine how taxation has been a key factor in world events. Like the Rosetta Stone - itself a tax document - the book sheds fresh light onto much of history.
