... that linked economic activity in the county to markets elsewhere in the colonies. Russo examines the allocation of enslaved labor in Somerset’s diversified economy using information drawn from judicial, tax, probate, and land records. Consideration of the evidence for Somerset County indicates that scholars...

... Cooperative reflected the hierarchical logic of such postwar developmentalism. The growth of manufacturing in the 1950s was indebted to the transfer of capital from a marginalized agricultural sector and alienated farmers. Small-landed farmers had to pay the so-called Temporary Land Yield Tax, which was 70...

... monetary policy to be an issue of little concern for most professional economists. British economist John Maynard Keynes had taught, and the experience of the 1930s had demonstrated, that expansionary fiscal policy (increases in government spending or decreases in taxes) could be used to stimulate...

... Carolina Upcountry, 1800–1860 ( New York : Oxford University ress , 1988 ), 73 ; McCurry , Masters of Small Worlds , 48 . 8. 1860 Tax Return Books, St. Stephen's Parish, Records of the Comptroller General, South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina...

... so lavishly made before the election and so soon forgotten afterwards." To remedy this problem the Farmers' Union called for farmers to take a more active role in the political arena. The Farmers' Union's platform placed tax reform at the top of its priorities. For years farmers had been trying...

..., the agrarian relationship between peasants and landlords tended to be governed by the local community, not by the central government. of particular importance was the collective tax system, in which the state levied a collective tax on a given local community whose members were responsible for the state tax...

... Tax List, 1735, misc. collection, box 1, accounts, HSP Chester County Tax List, 1745, Etting Papers large misc. manuscript collection, HSP Tax Lists 1762–1764, 1767–1768, 1773, Northampton County Papers, see. A, case no. 3 York Assessments, 1762, Etting Papers manuscript case no. 3, HSP...

... Dodge , Report of the Director of the Office of Public Road Inquiries (Washington, DC: GPO, 1903 ), 333 -34 6 Casper Tabott , "The Personal Labor System of Road Tax," Good Roads1 ( Jan. 1892 ): 38 Isaac B. Potter , "The Gospel of Good Roads ," Good Roads1 ( Jan...

..., trees (in the ground, as lumber, and as charcoal fuel), and the tea bush itself all worked to ensure that accumulation was never orderly, linear, or bounded, despite attempts to make it so. Tea, and the industry built around it, intersected and reacted with trade and tax policies, infectious disease...

... County, Idaho (Twin Falls: Ace Printing, 1976 ), 28 13 Statistician to director, 16 November 1912, box 161, entry 3, RG 115. 14 Rupert Record , 21 December1905 Gates, History, 661 White, "It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own," 406 16 Rupert Record, 1907–1908 Property tax...

... decline by showing that higher property taxes played no role. Rather, farmers received tax "preferences," even after eventual annexation. Agriculture remained profitable; market gardeners were not pushed out but rather pulled to the ever-rising prices of prime real estate. New York State created its first...

..., Jobs, and Taxes: The Economic Impact of Sports Teams and Stadiums (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1997 ), 55 -91 Denton Record Chronicle , 4 March1996, A1 , 5 11 December 1996, A1, 8 3 April 1997, A9, 12 26 New York Times , 12 January1999, A16 Dallas Morning News , 4...

... binding together the fate of those who lived from the land. A household's subsistence could be destroyed instantaneously by an untimely frost, a sudden flood, or a freak hailstorm or lost more slowly to oidium or distemper. The French government provided regular assistance to farmers in the form of tax...

... of the farm programs. Some of this opposition came from Republicans and was more partisan than popular, but much of it came from the seemingly unfair administration of the hog-processing tax used to fund the al? lotment plan. The book focuses on the opposition to this tax, and along the way the left...

... modes of subsistence in Hebei before and after the flood, as well as its fiscal consequences in lost taxes and expensive engineering ventures. Concentrating on the river s occupation of Hebei, she leaves future writers to elaborate a full-watershed approach detailing the history of the river s...

... that the transient quality of renters enabled them to escape the responsibilities of the local community, unlike landowners who paid local taxes and had more to gain from community involvement. Based on his findings, Willard asked, Why, then, do they [renters] choose ownership with small incomes? On the other hand...

... of themeat arriving in Paris entered on the hoof, and the Crown consolidated and reorganized cattle markets, including the hitherto informal credit arrange 395 AgriculturHalistory Summer ments that underpinned them, in order tomore easily regulate and tax this lucrative trade. Throughout her study,Watts...

... unfair administration of the hog-processing tax used to fund the al? lotment plan. The book focuses on the opposition to this tax, and along the way the left and the right are seen joining in the struggle in interesting ways. Choate would have benefited by analyzing the New Deal from a national...

... representatives who will try passing laws saving it, even if doing so is not in the citizens' self-interests. (Suppose that preservation blocks development of a larger tax base that will lower everyone's property taxes.) If Sagoff is correct?which I think he is?environmental decisions are much more com- plicated...

... decision to operate on the Great Sioux Reservation proved a worthwhile venture yet again, when county taxes came due.28 The Sheidley Cattle Company had expanded considerably since first arriving in Dakota Territory in 1880. It sold most of its Nebraska ranges to Alex Swan in 1883 and moved the rest of its...