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...

1928-1932 : ethnic nation and Social Democratic consolidation -- Making the "people's home," 1945-1950 -- 1968-1975 : security, equality and choice : expanding the people's home -- 1991-1995 : people's home no longer? : the breakdown of the miraculous welfare machine -- The end of Social...