The Price of Progress : Public Services, Taxation, and the American Corporate State, 1877 To 1929.
Higgens-Evenson, R. Rudy.
The Price of Progress : Public Services, Taxation, and the American Corporate State, 1877 To 1929. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (181 pages) - Reconfiguring American Political History Series . - Reconfiguring American Political History Series .
Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- ONE Compromise, Corruption, and Confrontation -- TWO Progress, Bit by Bit -- THREE From Charter-Mongering to Catching Corporate Freeloaders -- FOUR The Second Era of Internal Improvements -- FIVE Consent, Control, and Centralization -- SIX Giants of History -- SEVEN The Test of Democracy -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- INDEX.
By the 1920s, a variety of "corporate stateshad proliferated across the nation, each shaped by a particular mix of taxation and public services, each offering a case study in how the business of America, as President Calvin Coolidge put it, became business.
9780801875892
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.
Electronic books.
HJ2053.A1H54 2003
336.73/09/034
The Price of Progress : Public Services, Taxation, and the American Corporate State, 1877 To 1929. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (181 pages) - Reconfiguring American Political History Series . - Reconfiguring American Political History Series .
Intro -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- ONE Compromise, Corruption, and Confrontation -- TWO Progress, Bit by Bit -- THREE From Charter-Mongering to Catching Corporate Freeloaders -- FOUR The Second Era of Internal Improvements -- FIVE Consent, Control, and Centralization -- SIX Giants of History -- SEVEN The Test of Democracy -- Conclusion -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- INDEX.
By the 1920s, a variety of "corporate stateshad proliferated across the nation, each shaped by a particular mix of taxation and public services, each offering a case study in how the business of America, as President Calvin Coolidge put it, became business.
9780801875892
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.
Electronic books.
HJ2053.A1H54 2003
336.73/09/034