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Enterprise and Society 2009 10(4):875-876; doi:10.1093/es/khp049
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Alvin Rabushka. Taxation in Colonial America
Alvin Rabushka. Taxation in Colonial America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. xx + 946 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-13345-4, $60 (hardback)
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At nearly one thousand pages, this is not a book for the faint hearted. The volume is relentless in its detail with a torrent of revenue figures flowing through its pages—including the types of taxes and what they raised, who paid what, where, who were exempt, and how taxes were evaded. In short, Taxation in Colonial America is an encyclopedic overview of the taxes introduced within the thirteen colonies from the establishment of the
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