Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures and Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Wealth, Poverty, and Taxes 3
6. Constructing Fiscal Federalism
7. Confederation, or How Not to Run a Tax Revolt 21
8. Tax Revolt in Nova Scotia in the 1860s: Fairness and Region 56
9. Tax Revolt in British Columbia in the 1870s: Fairness and Race 88
10. Macdonald to Laurier: Revolt against Liberalism 119
11. Reconstructing Fiscal Federalism
12. Tax Revolt in Montreal in the 1880s: Fairness and Poverty 185
13. Corporate Tax Revolt in Toronto in the 1890s: Fairness and Wealth 233
14. Single-Tax Revolt in the 1900s: Fairness over the Land 281
15. Laurier to Borden: Failed Revolt against the Tariff 332
16. Income Tax: Progressivism Triumphant 377
17. The Politics of Fairness 459
18. Glossary 465
19. Notes 471
20. Index 553