Korinna Schönhärl is the Heisenberg-Professor for Modern History at Paderborn University, Germany.Gisela Hürlimann is professor of history of technology and economic history at the Technical University (TU) Dresden, Germany.Dorothea Rohde is a lecturer of ancient history at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.

• Introduction Part I: Negotiating Lower Taxes, or No Taxes at All 1. Tax Evaders in Classical Athens: Attacks and Strategies of Defence in Attic Oratory 2. The Alcabala Sales Tax Administration in Colonial Mexico: Avoidance strategies in Bourbon Colonial Mexico 3. Imperial Taxation and Local Agency: Tax Avoidance and Tax Resistance in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Germany (Saxony and Thuringia) Part II: Resisting and Opposing Taxes 4. Not Paying Taxes in Roman Egypt 5. "Taxing" the Tribes in the Ottoman Empire: The Case of the Tribes of Mutki, 1839-1908 6. Tax Evasion as Means of Resistance in Occupied Greece, 1941-1944 7. Women´s Protests against Colonial Taxation in the Eastern Provinces of Nigeria Part III: Avoiding Tax Avoidance: Counter Strategies by State Authorities 8. Verbally Resisting Taxes in Medieval England: Arguments, Anger and the (In)Ability to Prevent Tax-Avoidance in the Reign of Henry III 9. How to Create a Taxpaying Spirit: A Transnational Examination of a US American and a Western German Tax Education Film in and after World War II 10. “Exceptional” Tax Amnesties: A Common Swiss Way of Fighting Tax Fraud in the Twentieth Century Part IV: Sparing the Rich and Companies from Taxation 11. "There is no wrongdoing in avoiding taxes." The Land Union’s Tax Resistance in Great Britain, 1900–1930s 12. Populist Ambivalence to Tax Evasion: The 1962 Campaign Against Dividend and Interest Withhold-ing in the US 13. “I am a professional tax evader”. Multinationals, business groups and tax havens, 1950s to 1980s 14. Tax System Credibility vs. Banking System Reputation? Tax Evasion from Sweden to Switzerland in the Early 1970s

Korinna Schönhärl is the Heisenberg-Professor for Modern History at Paderborn University, Germany.Gisela Hürlimann is professor of history of technology and economic history at the Technical University (TU) Dresden, Germany.Dorothea Rohde is a lecturer of ancient history at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.

• Introduction Part I: Negotiating Lower Taxes, or No Taxes at All 1. Tax Evaders in Classical Athens: Attacks and Strategies of Defence in Attic Oratory 2. The Alcabala Sales Tax Administration in Colonial Mexico: Avoidance strategies in Bourbon Colonial Mexico 3. Imperial Taxation and Local Agency: Tax Avoidance and Tax Resistance in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Germany (Saxony and Thuringia) Part II: Resisting and Opposing Taxes 4. Not Paying Taxes in Roman Egypt 5. "Taxing" the Tribes in the Ottoman Empire: The Case of the Tribes of Mutki, 1839-1908 6. Tax Evasion as Means of Resistance in Occupied Greece, 1941-1944 7. Women´s Protests against Colonial Taxation in the Eastern Provinces of Nigeria Part III: Avoiding Tax Avoidance: Counter Strategies by State Authorities 8. Verbally Resisting Taxes in Medieval England: Arguments, Anger and the (In)Ability to Prevent Tax-Avoidance in the Reign of Henry III 9. How to Create a Taxpaying Spirit: A Transnational Examination of a US American and a Western German Tax Education Film in and after World War II 10. “Exceptional” Tax Amnesties: A Common Swiss Way of Fighting Tax Fraud in the Twentieth Century Part IV: Sparing the Rich and Companies from Taxation 11. "There is no wrongdoing in avoiding taxes." The Land Union’s Tax Resistance in Great Britain, 1900–1930s 12. Populist Ambivalence to Tax Evasion: The 1962 Campaign Against Dividend and Interest Withhold-ing in the US 13. “I am a professional tax evader”. Multinationals, business groups and tax havens, 1950s to 1980s 14. Tax System Credibility vs. Banking System Reputation? Tax Evasion from Sweden to Switzerland in the Early 1970s

Korinna Schönhärl is the Heisenberg-Professor for Modern History at Paderborn University, Germany.Gisela Hürlimann is professor of history of technology and economic history at the Technical University (TU) Dresden, Germany.Dorothea Rohde is a lecturer of ancient history at the University of Bielefeld, Germany.

• Introduction Part I: Negotiating Lower Taxes, or No Taxes at All 1. Tax Evaders in Classical Athens: Attacks and Strategies of Defence in Attic Oratory 2. The Alcabala Sales Tax Administration in Colonial Mexico: Avoidance strategies in Bourbon Colonial Mexico 3. Imperial Taxation and Local Agency: Tax Avoidance and Tax Resistance in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Germany (Saxony and Thuringia) Part II: Resisting and Opposing Taxes 4. Not Paying Taxes in Roman Egypt 5. "Taxing" the Tribes in the Ottoman Empire: The Case of the Tribes of Mutki, 1839-1908 6. Tax Evasion as Means of Resistance in Occupied Greece, 1941-1944 7. Women´s Protests against Colonial Taxation in the Eastern Provinces of Nigeria Part III: Avoiding Tax Avoidance: Counter Strategies by State Authorities 8. Verbally Resisting Taxes in Medieval England: Arguments, Anger and the (In)Ability to Prevent Tax-Avoidance in the Reign of Henry III 9. How to Create a Taxpaying Spirit: A Transnational Examination of a US American and a Western German Tax Education Film in and after World War II 10. “Exceptional” Tax Amnesties: A Common Swiss Way of Fighting Tax Fraud in the Twentieth Century Part IV: Sparing the Rich and Companies from Taxation 11. "There is no wrongdoing in avoiding taxes." The Land Union’s Tax Resistance in Great Britain, 1900–1930s 12. Populist Ambivalence to Tax Evasion: The 1962 Campaign Against Dividend and Interest Withhold-ing in the US 13. “I am a professional tax evader”. Multinationals, business groups and tax havens, 1950s to 1980s 14. Tax System Credibility vs. Banking System Reputation? Tax Evasion from Sweden to Switzerland in the Early 1970s