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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821839903321

Autore

Einhorn Robin L (Robin Leigh), <1960->

Titolo

American taxation, American slavery / / Robin L. Einhorn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2006

ISBN

1-281-95675-9

9786611956752

0-226-19489-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Disciplina

336.200973

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-325) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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