Author: Ann Augusta Jaquins Hurd
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The Letters of Ann Augusta Jaquins Hurd and Mary Olivia Hurd Arno, 1858-1897
Author: Ann Augusta Jaquins Hurd
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Making the Modern American Fiscal State
Author: Ajay K. Mehrotra
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107436001
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
At the turn of the twentieth century, the US system of public finance underwent a dramatic transformation. The late nineteenth-century regime of indirect, hidden, partisan, and regressive taxes was eclipsed in the early twentieth century by a direct, transparent, professionally administered, and progressive tax system. This book uncovers the contested roots and paradoxical consequences of this fundamental shift in American tax law and policy. It argues that the move toward a regime of direct and graduated taxation marked the emergence of a new fiscal polity - a new form of statecraft that was guided not simply by the functional need for greater revenue but by broader social concerns about economic justice, civic identity, bureaucratic capacity, and public power. Between the end of Reconstruction and the onset of the Great Depression, the intellectual, legal, and administrative foundations of the modern fiscal state first took shape. This book explains how and why this new fiscal polity came to be.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107436001
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
At the turn of the twentieth century, the US system of public finance underwent a dramatic transformation. The late nineteenth-century regime of indirect, hidden, partisan, and regressive taxes was eclipsed in the early twentieth century by a direct, transparent, professionally administered, and progressive tax system. This book uncovers the contested roots and paradoxical consequences of this fundamental shift in American tax law and policy. It argues that the move toward a regime of direct and graduated taxation marked the emergence of a new fiscal polity - a new form of statecraft that was guided not simply by the functional need for greater revenue but by broader social concerns about economic justice, civic identity, bureaucratic capacity, and public power. Between the end of Reconstruction and the onset of the Great Depression, the intellectual, legal, and administrative foundations of the modern fiscal state first took shape. This book explains how and why this new fiscal polity came to be.
A History of Women in the United States: Indiana-Nebraska
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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The Oshkosh Woodworkers' Strike of 1898
Author: Virginia Glenn Crane
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Making the Modern American Fiscal State
Author: Ajay K. Mehrotra
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107043921
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Making the Modern American Fiscal State chronicles the rise of the US system of direct and progressive taxation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107043921
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Making the Modern American Fiscal State chronicles the rise of the US system of direct and progressive taxation.
Citizen Worker
Author: David Montgomery
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521483803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Discusses the relationship between workers and the government by focusing not on the legal regulation of unions and strikes, but on popular struggles for citizenship rights.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521483803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Discusses the relationship between workers and the government by focusing not on the legal regulation of unions and strikes, but on popular struggles for citizenship rights.
American Taxation, American Slavery
Author: Robin L. Einhorn
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226194884
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
For all the recent attention to the slaveholding of the founding fathers, we still know remarkably little about the influence of slavery on American politics. American Taxation, American Slavery tackles this problem in a new way. Rather than parsing the ideological pronouncements of charismatic slaveholders, it examines the concrete policy decisions that slaveholders and non-slaveholders made in the critical realm of taxation. The result is surprising—that the enduring power of antigovernment rhetoric in the United States stems from the nation’s history of slavery rather than its history of liberty. We are all familiar with the states’ rights arguments of proslavery politicians who wanted to keep the federal government weak and decentralized. But here Robin Einhorn shows the deep, broad, and continuous influence of slavery on this idea in American politics. From the earliest colonial times right up to the Civil War, slaveholding elites feared strong democratic government as a threat to the institution of slavery. American Taxation, American Slavery shows how their heated battles over taxation, the power to tax, and the distribution of tax burdens were rooted not in debates over personal liberty but rather in the rights of slaveholders to hold human beings as property. Along the way, Einhorn exposes the antidemocratic origins of the popular Jeffersonian rhetoric about weak government by showing that governments were actually more democratic—and stronger—where most people were free. A strikingly original look at the role of slavery in the making of the United States, American Taxation, American Slavery will prove essential to anyone interested in the history of American government and politics.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226194884
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
For all the recent attention to the slaveholding of the founding fathers, we still know remarkably little about the influence of slavery on American politics. American Taxation, American Slavery tackles this problem in a new way. Rather than parsing the ideological pronouncements of charismatic slaveholders, it examines the concrete policy decisions that slaveholders and non-slaveholders made in the critical realm of taxation. The result is surprising—that the enduring power of antigovernment rhetoric in the United States stems from the nation’s history of slavery rather than its history of liberty. We are all familiar with the states’ rights arguments of proslavery politicians who wanted to keep the federal government weak and decentralized. But here Robin Einhorn shows the deep, broad, and continuous influence of slavery on this idea in American politics. From the earliest colonial times right up to the Civil War, slaveholding elites feared strong democratic government as a threat to the institution of slavery. American Taxation, American Slavery shows how their heated battles over taxation, the power to tax, and the distribution of tax burdens were rooted not in debates over personal liberty but rather in the rights of slaveholders to hold human beings as property. Along the way, Einhorn exposes the antidemocratic origins of the popular Jeffersonian rhetoric about weak government by showing that governments were actually more democratic—and stronger—where most people were free. A strikingly original look at the role of slavery in the making of the United States, American Taxation, American Slavery will prove essential to anyone interested in the history of American government and politics.
Great Transformations
Author: Mark Blyth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521010528
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book picks up where Karl Polanyi's study of economic and political change left off. Building upon Polanyi's conception of the double movement, Blyth analyzes the two periods of deep seated institutional change that characterized the twentieth century: the 1930s and the 1970s. Blyth views both sets of changes as part of the same dynamic. In the 1930s labor reacted against the exigencies of the market and demanded state action to mitigate the market's effects by 'embedding liberalism.' In the 1970s, those who benefited least from such 'embedding' institutions, namely business, reacted against these constraints and sought to overturn that institutional order. Blyth demonstrates the critical role economic ideas played in making institutional change possible. Great Transformations rethinks the relationship between uncertainty, ideas, and interests, achieving profound new insights on how, and under what conditions, institutional change takes place.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521010528
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book picks up where Karl Polanyi's study of economic and political change left off. Building upon Polanyi's conception of the double movement, Blyth analyzes the two periods of deep seated institutional change that characterized the twentieth century: the 1930s and the 1970s. Blyth views both sets of changes as part of the same dynamic. In the 1930s labor reacted against the exigencies of the market and demanded state action to mitigate the market's effects by 'embedding liberalism.' In the 1970s, those who benefited least from such 'embedding' institutions, namely business, reacted against these constraints and sought to overturn that institutional order. Blyth demonstrates the critical role economic ideas played in making institutional change possible. Great Transformations rethinks the relationship between uncertainty, ideas, and interests, achieving profound new insights on how, and under what conditions, institutional change takes place.
Federal Taxation in America
Author: W. Elliot Brownlee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521545204
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This brief survey is a comprehensive historical overview of the US federal tax system.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521545204
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This brief survey is a comprehensive historical overview of the US federal tax system.
The Search for American Political Development
Author: Karen Orren
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521547642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Orren and Skowronek survey past and current 'APD' scholarship and outline a course of study for the future.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521547642
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Orren and Skowronek survey past and current 'APD' scholarship and outline a course of study for the future.