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The Terrific Engine tells the story of how income taxation effected a profound transformation in the way people talk and think about politics in Canada, and of the energy Canadians invested in taxation's political possibilities.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Political History of Possibility

Part 1: The People’s Enlightenment and the Destruction of the Two-Party System

1 A Clear Line? The Great Deception and the Farmers’ Critique of the Tariff , 1910–11

2 The Brink of the Abyss: The “Conscription of Wealth” and the Party System, 1917–19

Part 2: The Citizenship of Contribution and the Construction of the Modern Political Imaginary

3 The Curve of Progressivity: “Fiscal Need” and the Constitution, 1921–39

4 A Modern Measure? The Income Tax Sublime and the Left–Right Spectrum, 1940–45

Conclusion: Income Taxation, Democracy, and the Modern Political Imaginary

Notes; Bibliography; Index

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      Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/01/2019
      ISBN13: 9780774836784, 978-0774836784
      ISBN10: 0774836784
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Terrific Engine tells the story of how income taxation effected a profound transformation in the way people talk and think about politics in Canada, and of the energy Canadians invested in taxation's political possibilities.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction: A Political History of Possibility

      Part 1: The People’s Enlightenment and the Destruction of the Two-Party System

      1 A Clear Line? The Great Deception and the Farmers’ Critique of the Tariff , 1910–11

      2 The Brink of the Abyss: The “Conscription of Wealth” and the Party System, 1917–19

      Part 2: The Citizenship of Contribution and the Construction of the Modern Political Imaginary

      3 The Curve of Progressivity: “Fiscal Need” and the Constitution, 1921–39

      4 A Modern Measure? The Income Tax Sublime and the Left–Right Spectrum, 1940–45

      Conclusion: Income Taxation, Democracy, and the Modern Political Imaginary

      Notes; Bibliography; Index

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