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Type:
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Working Paper |
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Author:
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Hoffman, Philip T. |
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Date:
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1983 |
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Agency:
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Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA |
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Series:
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Social Science Working Paper, no. 495 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/5833
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Sector:
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History
Social Organization |
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Region:
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Europe |
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Subject(s):
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taxation
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Abstract:
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"Apart from a flurry of interest in tax revolts ten years ago,
social historians of early modern Europe have by and large ignored
taxation. Their neglect is perhaps understandable, given that social
history itself arose as a revolt against traditional political history
and all that it entailed, including the operations of the fisc. The
fact that details of early modern fiscal systems often lie interred in
tedious administrative histories or that many political historians
themselves seem to overlook matters of interest to social historians
of course only compounds the problem. Yet while the neglect social historians have shown early modern taxation is perhaps understandable, it is nonetheless unfortunate. Indeed, it is even inexcusable. Taxation obviously had a drastic effect on the common people of early modern Europe, an effect that went far beyond the seizure of hard earned coins from their pockets."
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