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

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Superior document:Reconfiguring American political history
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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
Series:Reconfiguring American political history.
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Physical Description:x, 168 p. :; ill.
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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.