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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... Hampshire Taxes, 1693–1714 13.A. 1702 Ratios of Sterling (54d.) and Colonial Legal Values of Full-Weight Spanish Piece of Eight and Other Foreign Silver Coins against Each Other 13.B. Cross-Rates of English Sterling and Colonial ...
... Hampshire; (2) the middle colonies of New York, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania; and (3) the southern plantation colonies of Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. These clusters reflect similar patterns of ...
... Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania (Penn's personal accounts), and South Carolina. The collection also includes the proceedings of the lower and upper houses of the thirteen original colonies recorded in respective journals, but ...
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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 |