| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Book Review

Taxation in Colonial America. By Alvin Rabushka. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. xxii, 946 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-691-13345-4.)
This lengthy, comprehensive, and encyclopedic volume makes an enormously significant contribution to scholarship on the British North American colonies. Every university with an active graduate program, plus all the major independent research centers, should add this jewel to their library holdings. Alvin Rabushka has produced an astonishing and overwhelming labor of love, and colonial historians will remain forever in the author's debt for his prodigious research on the various tax systems in the thirteen colonies from 1607 through 1775.	1
Rabushka offers primarily a massive glossary of the most basic facts and figures. To provide context for his discussion of the multiple taxing mechanisms, he also includes extensive background information on the most pertinent political developments within each colony. The political climate in Great Britain at various stages is likewise illuminated. The monetary peculiarities of the colonies draw his attention as well, since no two systems were exactly the same. The author divides the study into five distinct periods: 1607–1688; 1688–1714; 1714–1739; 1739–1763; and 1763–1775. He also discusses separately the New England, middle Atlantic, and southern colonies.	. . .

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