The Price of progress [electronic resource] : public services, taxation, and the American corporate state, 1877 to 1929 / R. Rudy Higgens-Evenson.
Series: Reconfiguring American political historyPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.Description: x, 168 p. : illISBN:- 0801870542 (alk. paper)
- 0801875897
- 336.73/09/034 21
- HJ2053.A1 H54 2003eb
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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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