Author: United States. Revenue Commission (1865-1866)Publisher:
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Category : Internal revenue
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Reports of a Commission Appointed for a Revision of the Revenue System of the United States, 1865-'66
Author: United States. Revenue Commission (1865-1866)Publisher:
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Category : Internal revenue
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Reports of a Commission Appointed for a Revision of the Revenue System of the United States, 1865-'66 ...
Author: Report of a Commission Appointed for a Revision of the Revenue System of the United States 1865-'66
Author: United States Revenue CommissionPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752558849
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Service Monographs of the United States Government
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Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Service Monographs of the United States Government
Author: Brookings Institution. Institute for Government ResearchPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Revenue System of the United States
Author: United States. Revenue Commission (1865-1866)Publisher:
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Category : Revenue
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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The Bureau of Internal Revenue
Author: Laurence Frederick SchmeckebierPublisher:
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Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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American Lucifers
Author: Jeremy ZallenPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469653338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The myth of light and progress has blinded us. In our electric world, we are everywhere surrounded by effortlessly glowing lights that simply exist, as they should, seemingly clear and comforting proof that human genius means the present will always be better than the past, and the future better still. At best, this is half the story. At worst, it is a lie. From whale oil to kerosene, from the colonial period to the end of the U.S. Civil War, modern, industrial lights brought wonderful improvements and incredible wealth to some. But for most workers, free and unfree, human and nonhuman, these lights were catastrophes. This book tells their stories. The surprisingly violent struggle to produce, control, and consume the changing means of illumination over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries transformed slavery, industrial capitalism, and urban families in profound, often hidden ways. Only by taking the lives of whalers and enslaved turpentine makers, match-manufacturing children and coal miners, night-working seamstresses and the streetlamp-lit poor—those American lucifers—as seriously as those of inventors and businessmen can the full significance of the revolution of artificial light be understood.
The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1914
Author: Nancy CohenPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860093
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Tracing the transformation of liberal political ideology from the end of the Civil War to the early twentieth century, Nancy Cohen offers a new interpretation of the origins and character of modern liberalism. She argues that the values and programs associated with modern liberalism were formulated not during the Progressive Era, as most accounts maintain, but earlier, in the very different social context of the Gilded Age. Integrating intellectual, social, cultural, and economic history, Cohen argues that the reconstruction of liberalism hinged on the reaction of postbellum liberals to social and labor unrest. As new social movements of workers and farmers arose and phrased their protests in the rhetoric of democratic producerism, liberals retreated from earlier commitments to an expansive vision of democracy. Redefining liberal ideas about citizenship and the state, says Cohen, they played a critical role in legitimating emergent corporate capitalism and politically insulating it from democratic challenge. As the social cost of economic globalization comes under international critical scrutiny, this book revisits the bitter struggles over the relationship between capitalism and democracy in post-Civil War America. The resolution of this problem offered by the new liberalism deeply influenced the progressives and has left an enduring legacy for twentieth-century American politics, Cohen argues.
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