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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Alvin Rabushka. Taxation in Colonial America alvin rabushka princeton university press princeton and oxford Copyright © 2008 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton.
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... University. For guidance on searching British records, I thank Robert C. 1To commemorate the bicentenary of the end ... Press (Millwood, NY). The volumes on New York and South Carolina were published in paperback in 1996 and 1997, ...
... University Press, I want to thank Seth Ditchik, editor for economics and finance, for working with me to see this book through the review, approval, and production phases, Natalie Baan, production editor, and Dimitri Karetnikov ...
... University Press of New England for the Colonial Coin Collectors Club, 2002), xvii–xix, and Thomas L. Purvis, ed., Colonial America to 1763, Almanacs of American Life (New York: Facts on File, 1999), 286–87. Table 16.3 in Purvis ...
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 |