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The Price of progress [electronic resource] : public services, taxation, and the American corporate state, 1877 to 1929 / R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson.

By: Higgens-Evenson, R. Rudy (Ronald Rudy), 1969-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Reconfiguring American political history: Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003Description: x, 168 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Government spending policy -- United States -- States | Taxation -- United States -- States -- History | Corporate state -- United States -- History | United States -- Politics and government | United States -- Economic conditionsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 336.73/09/034 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.