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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... North Carolina Quitrents, 1739–1748 23.7. North Carolina Poll Tax Rates, Revenue, and White Per Capita Taxes, 1748–1763 23.8. South Carolina Quitrents and the Percentage of Land on Which Quitrents Were Paid, 1739–1763 23.9. South ...
... North and South Carolina, and Georgia. These clusters reflect similar patterns of settlement, economic development, political institutions, monetary arrangements, and tax regimes. Each chapter sets forth the specific taxes imposed by ...
... North America, British North America, the first British Empire, the plantations, and the provinces. Colonial America comprises the Dutch West India Company's settlement of New Netherland (1624–64) and the New Sweden Company's colony of ...
... North Carolina records were scattered around several locations, preventing a comprehensive compilation.3 The full ... North Carolina, 1729–1776 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981), 90. 4Peter L. McKickle, “Young Man's ...
... North Carolina photographed all of the extant materials that were accessible in the files and archives of the states. The collection, consisting of seventeen hundred microfilms, is known as the Early State Records. The documents include ...
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 |