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UNINA9910782530503321 |
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Autore |
Einhorn Robin L (Robin Leigh), <1960-> |
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Titolo |
American taxation, American slavery [[electronic resource] /] / Robin L. Einhorn |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-95675-9 |
9786611956752 |
0-226-19489-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (350 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Slavery - Political aspects - United States - History |
Taxation - Political aspects - United States - History |
Slavery - Economic aspects - United States - History |
States' rights (American politics) |
United States Politics and government 1775-1783 |
United States Politics and government 1783-1865 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-325) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue: Taxation without Representation -- Part I. Colonial Tax Systems -- Part II. National Tax Politics -- Part III. The Synthesis in the States -- Epilogue: James Madison on Slave Taxes -- Appendix: How to Talk about Taxes -- Notes -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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For all the recent attention to the slaveholding of the founding fathers, we still know remarkably little about the influence of slavery on American politics. American Taxation, American Slavery tackles this problem in a new way. Rather than parsing the ideological pronouncements of charismatic slaveholders, it examines the concrete policy decisions that slaveholders and non-slaveholders made in the critical realm of taxation. The result is surprising-that the enduring power of antigovernment rhetoric in the United States stems from the nation's history of slavery rath |
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