Higgens-Evenson, R. Rudy 1969-

The Price of progress public services, taxation, and the American corporate state, 1877 to 1929 / [electronic resource] : R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. - x, 168 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Reconfiguring American political history . - Reconfiguring American political history. .

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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Government spending policy--States.--United States
Taxation--States--History.--United States
Corporate state--History.--United States


United States--Politics and government.
United States--Economic conditions.


Electronic books.

HJ2053.A1 / H54 2003eb

336.73/09/034