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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... royal prerogative—the Crown, the Privy Council, the secretary of state, the Board of Trade, the Treasury Board, the Commissioners of Customs, and other departments—played the dominant role in colonial affairs until the conclusion of the ...
... royal colonies largely inherited and partially modified the institutions and practices of their corporate or proprietary predecessors. The effectual constitutions of royal colonies consisted of commissions to royal officers, the ...
... royal household at an appraised value; and prisage, the right to take a cask or two from wine-laden ships on their arrival at a port); several feudal aids (e.g., when the king made his eldest son a knight, when he married his eldest ...
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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 |