Making the Modern American Fiscal State
Making the Modern American Fiscal State

Author: Ajay K. Mehrotra

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

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At the turn of the twentieth century, the U.S. system of public finance underwent a dramatic transformation. The late-nineteenth-century regime of indirect, hidden, partisan, and regressive taxes was eclipsed in the early twentieth century by a direct, transparent, professionally administered, and progressive tax system. This book uncovers the contested roots and paradoxical consequences of this fundamental shift in American tax law and policy. It argues that the move toward a regime of direct and graduated taxation marked the emergence of a new fiscal polity - a new form of statecraft that was guided not simply by the functional need for greater revenue but by broader social concerns about economic justice, civic identity, bureaucratic capacity, and public power. Between the end of Reconstruction and the onset of the Great Depression, the intellectual, legal, and administrative foundations of the modern fiscal state first took shape. This book explains how and why this new fiscal polity came to be. This paper contains the penultimate drafts of the introduction and conclusion of the author's forthcoming book, Making the Modern American Fiscal State: Law, Politics, and the Rise of Progressive Taxation, 1877-1929 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Homeschool
Homeschool

Author: Milton Gaither

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

Published: 2008-06-15

Total Pages: 288

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This book sets the homeschooling movement in a broader historical context and shows the remarkably diverse ways Americans have used their homes to educate from colonial times to the present. Gaither looks at the role of key themes such as social networks of communication, entrepreneurialism, and the public influence of female domesticity in the past and uses their evolution as a tool to comment on the future of homeschooling.

The Politics of Carnival
The Politics of Carnival

Author: Chris Humphrey

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780719056031

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Medieval festivals such as carnival and misrule, were occasions which created a temporary and dynamic upside-down world. This text shows these occasions were highly diverse, and discusses how they were able to negotiate a range of meanings and values.

Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare
Medical Aspects of Chemical Warfare

Author: Shirley D. Tuorinsky

Publisher: Department of the Army

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780160815324

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A comprehensive source of the information available on chemical agents, this book will increase the level of preparedness and response capability of military and civilian practitioners responsible for chemical casualty care. Includes detailed explanations of chemical detectors and protection equipment, diagnosis, decontamination techniques, established and emerging countermeasures, and therapy techniques, as well as the history of chemical warfare and casualty management.

Presidential Campaigns, Slogans, Issues, and Platforms [3 volumes]
Presidential Campaigns, Slogans, Issues, and Platforms [3 volumes]

Author: Robert North Roberts

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2012-06-12

Total Pages: 1269

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The book provides a comprehensive discussion of the major issues and events surrounding all American presidential elections, from the earliest years of the Republic through the campaign of 2008. Presidential Campaigns, Slogans, Issues, and Platforms: The Complete Encyclopedia is an easy-to-use reference work designed to encourage students and anyone interested in democratic politics to undertake a greater understanding of this complex aspect of American political life. The three-volume work covers each presidential campaign in depth, examining a large number of related issues ranging from the use of social media in modern presidential campaigns to negative campaign ads and key slogans used in every presidential campaign. Volume One contains entries offering specific and focused information on issues, trends, factors, slogans, strategies, and other more detailed elements of presidential campaigning from the first stirrings of the American democratic process to the first decade of the 21st century. Volumes Two and Three provide chronological accounts of every presidential campaign since the ratification of the Constitution through the campaign of 2008, with Volume Two covering the campaign of 1788–89 to the campaign of 1908, and Volume Three covering the campaign of 1912 to the campaign of 2008.