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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... Crown, Parliament, and other institutions of government and the British people. The establishment of colonies in the New World required the European powers to provide for the structure of local colonial government and the relationship ...
... Crown, held tenure in socage. Military tenants of the Crown were the foundation of the feudal system. Feudal lords could lease and sell their lands and acquire tenants of their own, but their ultimate loyalty was due to the Crown ...
... Crown possessed the sole power to make grants of vacant land. The patent granted to John Cabot fixed his standing as a tenant of the Crown. The patents to Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh required allegiance to the Crown ...
... crown ownership, and thus the tenure of the American colonists, implies the removal of Indian rights or ownership. Beginning with the patent from Isabella and Ferdinand to Columbus (“Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic ...
... Crown upon merchandise at the ports, encompassed (1) customs, payments by merchants to the Crown for protection from numerous tolls and charges at the hands of lords and local port authorities; (2) subsidies granted by Parliament, which ...
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 |
891 | |
INDEX | 915 |