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The Price of Progress : Public Services, Taxation, and the American Corporate State, 1877 To 1929.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Reconfiguring American Political History SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (181 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801875892
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Price of ProgressDDC classification:
  • 336.73/09/034
LOC classification:
  • HJ2053.A1H54 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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