Taxation in Colonial AmericaTaxation in Colonial America examines life in the thirteen original American colonies through the revealing lens of the taxes levied on and by the colonists. Spanning the turbulent years from the founding of the Jamestown settlement to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Alvin Rabushka provides the definitive history of taxation in the colonial era, and sets it against the backdrop of enormous economic, political, and social upheaval in the colonies and Europe. |
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... America's colonial heritage of taxation and government. To that end this book describes and analyzes taxation in the thirteen original American colonies from Jamestown to the beginning of the American Revolution, the midnight ride of ...
... American Antiquarian Society; Sally Pierce, Boston Athenaeum; Marianne Martin, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Williamsburg; Mary Ann Philyaw, Comte de Grass Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Virginia ...
... American Revolution. The colonists had resisted more than a decade of impositions by Parliament—the Revenue (Sugar) Act of 1764, the Stamp Act of 1765, the Townshend Acts of 1767, and perhaps most famous of all, the Tea Act of 1773 ...
... American Revolution. British politics, in particular the contest between the Crown and Parliament for power, the Navigation Acts and other trade rules that governed Britain's commercial ties with its colonies, and the evolution of ...
... American Colonies A fter William the. 1In 1494 Portugal and Spain negotiated the Treaty of Tordesillas, named after the ... American Revolution. The colonial activities of the European powers in Asia and Africa are omitted from this study ...
Contents
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Turmoil in EnglandGrowth in the Colonies 16071688 | 65 |
War in EuropeOpportunity in the Colonies 16881714 | 271 |
Salutary Neglect in the Colonies 17141739 | 441 |
War Debt Money and Taxes Prelude to Imperial Intervention 17391763 | 559 |
An American Tax 17631775 | 713 |
CONCLUSION | 865 |
APPENDIX | 871 |
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INDEX | 915 |