CfP: Not paying taxes: Tax evasion, tax avoidance and tax resistance in historical perspective

States have always relied on their subjects’ or citizens’ mandatory contributions to cover the costs of public expenditures. Besides warlike occupation and exploitation, such duties, fees or taxes were often regulated by law, similar forms of binding norms and rules, or social pressure. At the same time, tacit refusal or open resistance to paying public charges can be observed in different periods of history, types of societies, political formations and places. The aim of our cross-epochal and interdisciplinary workshop is to examine the different practices and forms of withholding and avoiding personal and financial duties, fees and taxes over time and among different social, professional and other groups. Proposals also from ancient, medieval, early modern, modern and non-European history are highly welcome, as are contributions from the history of law, of science and philosophy and of political and economic thought, from historical sociology and political economy.