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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... House Figure 19.2. Interior View, Yorktown Customs House Figure 19.3. Interior View, Yorktown Customs House Figure 24.1. Colonial America, 1763 Figure 24.2. Obelisk Erected on the Boston Common in Celebration of Repeal of the Stamp Act ...
... House of Orange to the end of the reign of Queen Anne, who left no heirs. It was a quarter century of unremitting European warfare with its colonial American counterparts, King William's and Queen Anne's wars. Part IV encompasses 1714 ...
... House, London; Lynne Cookson, Public Record Office/ The National Archives, United Kingdom; Mari Takayanagi, House of Lords Record Office, United Kingdom; Georgia B. Barnhill, American Antiquarian Society; Sally Pierce, Boston Athenaeum ...
... House fires of 1715 and 1814 destroyed numerous records. Records listing receipts from duties on British imports of colonial rice that were stored in the House of Commons were destroyed by a fire that burned down the old houses of ...
... House of Commons, deliberating apart from the House of Lords, acquired the right to originate and approve additional grants. The right to levy duties on imports and exports at the ports was a source of ongoing contention between the ...
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 |