Taxation in Colonial AmericaPrinceton University Press, 24 בפבר׳ 2008 - 946 עמודים Taxation in Colonial America examines life in the thirteen original American colonies through the revealing lens of the taxes levied on and by the colonists. Spanning the turbulent years from the founding of the Jamestown settlement to the outbreak of the American Revolution, Alvin Rabushka provides the definitive history of taxation in the colonial era, and sets it against the backdrop of enormous economic, political, and social upheaval in the colonies and Europe. |
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... Excises , 1739 / 40-1762 / 63 21.5 . Massachusetts Treasurer's Statements , 1734 / 35-1753 21.6 . Massachusetts Treasurer's Statements and House of Representatives Audit Committee Reports , 1753 / 54-1762 / 63 21.7 . Massachusetts ...
... excises . The financial statements of Connecticut's treasurers for 1673-1712 are almost impossible to read and ... excise might run from fall to fall . Thus annual or other periodic ac- counts of revenue from different sources encompass ...
... Excises were often farmed out to the highest bidder or assigned to county collectors of excises . Other persons were desig- nated collectors of port duties . Licenses were sold to retailers of liquor and other goods . Vestries were ...
... excises used to pay salaries and other incidental costs of civil administra- tion . At times treasurers might transfer funds from one account to another to meet expenditures , crediting one and debiting the other , but these transfers ...
... excises imposed on liquor . Duties and excises are passed through to the final price paid by consumers . Higher prices due to the taxes reduce demand to some degree , which means less need for shipping , internal transportation , and ...
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Founding the American Colonies | 19 |
The First Wave | 23 |
The Middle Wave | 42 |
The Third Wave | 56 |
List of Tax Incentives in Founding and Settlement of the American Colonies | 64 |
Turmoil in EnglandGrowth in the Colonies 16071688 | 65 |
Constitutional Government and Politics in England 16071688 | 71 |
Imperial Governance Constitutional and Commercial Policy 16071688 | 92 |
Imperial Governance and the Colonial Constitution 17141739 | 445 |
Taxation of the New England Colonies 17141739 | 454 |
Taxation of the Middle Colonies 17141739 | 490 |
Taxation of the Southern Plantation Colonies 17141739 | 519 |
Taxes in the American Colonies 1739 | 556 |
War Debt Money and Taxes Prelude to Imperial Intervention 17391763 | 559 |
Imperial Governance and the Colonial Constitution 17391763 | 563 |
Taxation of the New England Colonies 17391763 | 575 |
The Colonial Constitution 16071688 | 118 |
Taxation of the New England Colonies 16201688 | 144 |
Taxation of the Middle Colonies 16241688 | 199 |
Taxation of the Southern Plantation Colonies 16071688 | 228 |
Taxation in the American Colonies 1688 | 267 |
War in EuropeOpportunity in the Colonies 16881714 | 271 |
Constitutional Government and Politics in England 16881714 | 275 |
Imperial Governance Constitutional and Commercial Policy 16881714 | 301 |
The Colonial Constitution 16881714 | 325 |
Taxation of the New England Colonies 16881714 | 355 |
Taxation of the Middle Colonies 16881714 | 399 |
Taxation of the Southern Plantation Colonies 16881714 | 416 |
Tax Burdens in the American Colonies 1714 | 437 |
Salutary Neglect in the Colonies 17141739 | 441 |
Taxation of the Middle Colonies 17391763 | 624 |
Taxation of the Southern Plantation Colonies 17391763 | 657 |
An American Tax 17631775 | 713 |
British Politics Imperial Governance and Colonial Government and Politics 17631775 | 717 |
British Taxation of the American Colonies 1763775 | 749 |
Taxation of the New England Colonies 17631775 | 766 |
Taxation of the Middle Colonies 17631775 | 797 |
Taxation of the Southern Plantation Colonies 17631775 | 826 |
CONCLUSION | 865 |
APPENDIX | 871 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 891 |
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