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

Publication Info.	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2003]
	©2003

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	HJ2053.A1 H54 2003	Available	---

Description	x, 168 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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, 1907 to 1929 -- The test of democracy : controlling spending in the corporate state, 1907 to 1929 -- Conclusion : the price of progress.
Subject	Government spending policy -- United States -- States.
	Government spending policy.
	United States.
	Taxation -- United States -- States -- History.
	Taxation.
	History.
	Corporate state -- United States -- History.
	Corporate state.
	United States -- Politics and government.
	Politics and government.
	United States -- Economic conditions.
	Economic conditions.
ISBN	0801870542 hardcover alkaline paper