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In "American Taxation, American Slavery,"" "Robin Einhorn shows the
deep, broad, and continuous influence of slavery on America's fear
and loathing of taxes. From the earliest colonial times right up to
the Civil War, slaveholding elites feared strong and democratic
government as a threat to the institution of slavery. Einhorn
reveals how the heated battles over taxation, the power to tax, and
the distribution of tax burdens were rooted not in debates over
personal liberty but rather in the rights of slaveholders to hold
human beings as property. Along the way, she exposes the
antidemocratic origins of the enduringly popular Jeffersonian
rhetoric about weak government, showing that state governments were
actually more democratic--and stronger--where most people were
free.
A strikingly original look at the role of slavery in the making of
the United States, "American Taxation, American Slavery" will prove
essential to anyone interested in the history of American
government and politics.
"For those seeking to understand complex and ever-changing systems
of taxation, their relationship to local and national politics, and
how the state and local systems were shaped by the 'peculiar
institution, ' this seminal and innovative investigation will
provide many answers."--Loren Schweninger, "American Historical
Review" "[Einhorn] tells what might have been a complicated story
in an engaging and accessible manner. It is her contention that
slavery and the reaction to it to a great extent shaped the kind of
nation we are today, because it shaped the kind of tax policies we
constructed to fund the kind of government we got. . . . Required
reading for anyone who ponders the impact ofslavery on our lives
today."--James Srodes," Washington Times"
In "Property Rules," Robin L. Einhorn uses City Council
records-previously thought destroyed-and census data to track the
course of city government in Chicago, providing an important
reinterpretation of the relationship between political and social
structures in the nineteenth-century American city.
A Choice "Outstanding Academic Book"
"[A] masterful study of policy-making in Chicago."--"Choice"
"[A] major contribution to urban and political history. . . . [A]n
excellent book."--Jeffrey S. Adler, "American Historical Review"
"[A]n enlightening trip. . . . Einhorn's foray helps make sense out
of the transition from Jacksonian to Gilded Age politics on the
local level. . . . [She] has staked out new ground that others
would do well to explore."--Arnold R. Hirsch, "American Journal of
Legal History"
"A well-documented and informative classic on urban
politics."--Daniel W. Kwong, "Law Books in Review"
First published in 1967, Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United
States Constitution was among the first studies to identify the
importance of slavery to the founding of the American Republic.
Provocative and powerful, this book offers explanations for the
movements and motivations that underpinned the Revolution and the
Early Republic. First, Staughton Lynd analyzes what motivated farm
tenants and artisans during the period of the American Revolution.
Second, he argues that slavery, and a willingness to compromise
with slavery, were at the center of all political arrangements by
the patriot leadership, including the United States Constitution.
Third, he maintains that the historiography of the United States
has adopted the mistaken perspective of Thomas Jefferson, who held
that southern plantation owners were merely victimized agrarians.
This new edition reproduces the original Preface by Edward P.
Thompson and includes a new Afterword by Robin Einhorn that
examines Lynd's arguments in the context of forty years of
subsequent scholarship.
First published in 1967, Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United
States Constitution was among the first studies to identify the
importance of slavery to the founding of the American Republic.
Provocative and powerful, this book offers explanations for the
movements and motivations that underpinned the Revolution and the
Early Republic. First, Staughton Lynd analyzes what motivated farm
tenants and artisans during the period of the American Revolution.
Second, he argues that slavery, and a willingness to compromise
with slavery, were at the center of all political arrangements by
the patriot leadership, including the United States Constitution.
Third, he maintains that the historiography of the United States
has adopted the mistaken perspective of Thomas Jefferson, who held
that southern plantation owners were merely victimized agrarians.
This new edition reproduces the original Preface by Edward P.
Thompson and includes a new Afterword by Robin Einhorn that
examines Lynd's arguments in the context of forty years of
subsequent scholarship.
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