The Price of progress public services, taxation, and the American corporate state, 1877 to 1929 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Higgens-Evenson, R. Rudy (Ronald Rudy), 1969-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
Series:Reconfiguring American political history.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Compromise, corruption, and confrontation : tax reform in the 1870s
  • Progress, bit by bit : school and insane asylum spending, 1880 to 1900
  • From charter-mongering to catching corporate freeloaders : corporation taxes, 1880-1907
  • The second era of internal improvements : transportation spending, 1890 to 1929
  • Consent, control, and centralization : school and hospital spending, 1900 to 1929
  • Giants of history : income and gasoline taxation, 1910 to 1929
  • The test of democracy : controlling spending in the corporate state, 1907 to 1929.