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

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.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 168 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Reconfiguring American political history
Reconfiguring American political history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-154).
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, 1880-1909 -- 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.
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Subject USA -- Regierung.
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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Higgens-Evenson, R. Rudy (Ronald Rudy), 1969- Price of progress. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 0801870542 (DLC) 2002001844 (OCoLC)48966555
ISBN 0801875897 (electronic book)
9780801875892 (electronic book)
0801870542 (alkaline paper)
9780801870545 (alkaline paper)