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UNINA9910454820103321 |
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Levi Margaret |
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Titolo |
Of rule and revenue [[electronic resource] /] / Margaret Levi |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 1988 |
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1-282-35556-2 |
9786612355561 |
0-520-90954-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (261 p.) |
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Collana |
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California series on social choice and political economy ; ; 9 |
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Revenue - History |
Income tax - History |
State, The - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Theory of Predatory Rule -- 3. Creating Compliance -- 4. Revenue Production in Republican Rome -- 5. France and England in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- 6. Introduction of the Income Tax in Eighteenth- Century Britain -- 7. Compliance with the Commonwealth Income Tax in Australia -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix: Bringing People Back into the State. A Bibliographical Essay -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Margaret Levi's wide-ranging theoretical and historical study demonstrates the importance of political relative to economic factors in accounting for revenue production policies. |
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UNINA9910819666003321 |
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Autore |
Payne Keith B. |
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The fallacies of Cold War deterrence and a new direction / / Keith B. Payne |
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Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2001 |
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©2001 |
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0-8131-2775-0 |
0-8131-4849-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Deterrence (Strategy) |
Nuclear weapons - United States |
Cold War |
Deterrence (Strategy) - History - 20th century |
United States Military policy |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cold War deterrence theory and practice -- Why the Cold War deterrence framework is inadequate -- Cold War deterrence thought in the post-Cold War world -- The dilemma of popular usage and a new direction -- Testing the deterrence framework -- The new deterrence framework, evidence, and misplaced confidence -- Lessons of this case study. |
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In 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain hoped that a policy of appeasement would satisfy Adolf Hitler's territorial appetite and structured British policy accordingly. This plan was a failure, chiefly because Hitler was not a statesman who would ultimately conform to familiar norms. Chamberlain's policy was doomed because he had greatly misjudged Hitler's basic beliefs and thus his behavior. U.S. Cold War nuclear deterrence policy was similarly based on the confident but questionable assumption that Soviet leaders would be rational by Washington's standards; they would behave reasonably wh |
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