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Taxation in Colonial America

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Description for Taxation in Colonial America Hardback.
Taxation 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. Rabushka shows how the colonists strove to minimize, avoid, and evade British and local taxation, and how they used tax incentives to foster settlement. He describes the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
968
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
968
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691133454
SKU
V9780691133454
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99-15

About Alvin Rabushka
Alvin Rabushka is the David and Joan Traitel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His books include "The Flat Tax".

Reviews for Taxation in Colonial America
Special Recognition in the 2009 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Awards "Running to nearly a thousand pages, this massive compendium of Colonial American tax data draws together disparate primary and secondary sources in an impressive feat of scholarship. Rabushka provides context for the wealth of public finance detail through a constitutional history ranging from the Magna Carta, through the early Colonial ... Read more

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