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Burg provides a detailed chronology of tax rebellions, 2350 BCE to 2002 CE. Offering over 390 chronologically arranged entries supplemented by a tax terminology list, appendix, bibliography, and index, Burg supplies a welcome addition to tax literature in a historical context. Each entry contains a bibliography, and illustrations are numerous. The entire gamut of taxation is treated--income taxes, fuel taxes, property taxes, taxes on bananas. A separate section supplies biographies of individuals involved in tax revolts. An overview of taxation history examines the evolution of taxation and serves as a context for the chronological entries. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Academic and professional readers. E. Truax University of North Texas
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Review by Booklist Review
\rtf1\ansi\deff0The author of this resource has written other reference works, mainly on U.S. history. In the current book, we learn about the long, historical struggle against taxes over many civilizations and across centuries, from measures taken to relieve oppressive taxes in Babylonia around 2350 B.C.E. to a protest on Ascension Island in 2002. Tax revolt has been part of larger economic, political, social, and religious issues in every nation. After a 10-page chronological list of rebellions over the centuries (nearly every year in the past few centuries), the author provides an 8-page cross-cultural summary of terms and strategies, such as underground economy. Subsequent chapters cover the Ancient World ; Early Middle Ages, A.D. 365\endash 1199 ; Late Middle Ages, 1200\endash 1500 ; Renaissance to Enlightenment, 1500\endash 1700 ; Eighteenth Century ; Nineteenth Century ; and Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. The format for each chapter is the same: chronological entries on revolts ranging from a paragraph to a few pages, with running dates in the margins, and a bibliographic reference for each entry. The work concludes with brief biographies, a list of tax-revolt events arranged by empire or nation, a bibliography, and an accurate 34-page double-column index. This work appears to be unique with its wide span of nations and times. It will be valuable in academic libraries, especially where there is a business school, as well as larger public libraries. -- RBB Copyright 2004 Booklist
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