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Martin Daunton

Martin Daunton is professor of economic history at Cambridge. The author of Just Taxes: The Politics of Taxation in Britain 1914-79, he is completing Wealth and Welfare: An Economic and Social History of Britain 1851-1951.

Selected bibliography

  • Wealth and Welfare: An Economic and Social History of Britain 1851-1951 (2007)
  • The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain (2005)
  • Just Taxes: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1914-1979 (2002)
  • Trusting Leviathan: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799-1914 (2001)
  • Politics of Consumption: Material Culture and Citizenship in Europe and America (2001)
  • The Cambridge Urban History of Britain: Vol. III, 1840-1950 (editor) (2001)
  • Charity, Self-interest and Welfare in the English Past (1996)

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