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Peter Hurst
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“Between 1040 and 1745, only three English monarchs did not either invade Scotland or fight off an invasion from Scotland,”
― Two Brothers
― Two Brothers
“In 1880, the US government raised 90 percent of its tax revenue from customs duties (56 percent) and excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol (34 percent). By 1930, income taxes accounted for nearly 60 percent of US government receipts.”
― Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
― Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era
“In 1955, over 740,000 miners were employed in Britain; by 1990, there were fewer than 50,000.”
― Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil NEW EDITION: A Chronicle of Coal, Cowdenbeath and Football
― Black Diamonds and the Blue Brazil NEW EDITION: A Chronicle of Coal, Cowdenbeath and Football
“In 2022, seven of the ten richest people in the world were tech billionaires.”
― Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
― Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
“Not only petty theft, but primitive forms of industrial rebellion – destroying a silk loom, throwing down fences when commons were enclosed, and firing corn ricks – were to be punished by death.”
― The Making of the English Working Class
― The Making of the English Working Class
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