UID:
almafu_9959234966302883
Umfang:
1 online resource (350 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-281-95675-9
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9786611956752
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0-226-19489-2
Inhalt:
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 rath
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of Tables, Figures, and Maps --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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Prologue: Taxation without Representation --
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Part I. Colonial Tax Systems --
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Part II. National Tax Politics --
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Part III. The Synthesis in the States --
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Epilogue: James Madison on Slave Taxes --
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Appendix: How to Talk about Taxes --
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Notes --
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Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-226-19488-4
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-226-19487-6
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
DOI:
10.7208/9780226194899
URL:
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