Tax, order, and good government : a new political history of Canada, 1867-1917 /

"What if Canadian history was actually about the money? In 1867, Canadians wrote themselves a new constitution because they needed a new tax deal. Confederation was not just about the taxes, but it was never not about the taxes, and the founding principles of "Peace, Order, and Good Govern...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heaman, E. A. (Elsbeth A.), 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.
Colección:Carleton library series ; 240.
Temas:
1867-1914
Fiscal policy > Canada > History.
Taxation > Canada > History.
Politique fiscale > Canada > Histoire.
Impôt > Canada > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Public Finance.
Fiscal policy
Taxation
Canada > History > 1867-1914.
Canada > Politics and government > 1867-1896.
Canada > Politics and government > 1896-1911.
Canada > Economic conditions > 1867-1918.
Canada > Histoire > 1867-1914.
Canada
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: wealth, poverty, and taxes
  • Part one: constructing fiscal federalism. Confederation, or how not to run a tax revolt ; Tax revolt in Nova Scotia in the 1860s: fairness and region ; Tax revolt in British Columbia in the 1870s: fairness and race ; Macdonald to Laurier: revolt against liberalism
  • Part two: reconstructing fiscal federalism. Tax revolt in Montreal in the 1880s: fairness and poverty ; Corporate tax revolt in Toronto in the 1890s: fairness and wealth ; Single-tax revolt in the 1900s: fairness over the land ; Laurier to Borden: failed revolt against the tariff ; Income tax: progressivism triumphant
  • Conclusion: the politics of fairness.

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