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Originally published in 1939, this book was written to provide an account of the development of income tax in Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. The text describes the advance in the technique and scope of government made by income tax administration, and assesses the social and economic significance of a wartime fiscal expedient. It was the product of extensive research into tax records sent to the King's Remembrancer during the Wars, which had lain untouched since they were tied up and labelled shortly after the Battle of Waterloo. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in...

KING SOLOMON'S MINES Adventurer Allan Quatermain leads an expedition into the uncharted heart of Africa in serch of a lost man... and the legendary lost treasure mine of King Solomon... THE PRISONER OF ZENDA A chance resemblence pitches an innocent man into a plot to steal the crown of Ruritania... THE LOST WORLD High on a South American escarpment, Professor Challenger's expedition finds evidence that extinct creatures still walk the Earth... they find a lost world... THE THIRTY NINE STEPS As the Great War looms in 1914, a diary is the trigger that brings Richard Hannay into the service of...

A brief, interpretive analysis of the highly ambitious American reform movements from the 1890s to 1917 that shows progressivism to have been a vital and significant phenomenon although there was no unified progressive movement. Link and McCormick succeed in making the events comprehensible while at the same time conveying a strong sense of the complexity and contradictions of the era.