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Author Higgens-Evenson, R. Rudy (Ronald Rudy), 1969-

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

Imprint Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description x, 168 p. : ill.
Series Reconfiguring American political history
Reconfiguring American political history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Government spending policy -- United States -- States.
Taxation -- United States -- States -- History.
Corporate state -- United States -- History.
United States -- Politics and government.
United States -- Economic conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0801875897
0801870542 (alk. paper)

 
    
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