The revenue imperative
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The revenue imperative
(Financial history / series editor, Robert E. Wright, no. 8)
Pickering & Chatto, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Provides a comprehensive overview of the Union financial policies during the American Civil War. This work argues that the revenue imperative, the need to keep pace with the burgeoning expenses of the conflict, governed the development of fiscal policy.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Fiscal Federalism
- Chapter 2 The 'Exhausted Condition of the Treasury'
- Chapter 3 The Magnitude of the Contest
- Chapter 4 The Poverty of the Treasury
- Chapter 5 Sparing the Necessaries of Life
- Chapter 6 The Most Burdened of them All
- Chapter 7 Conclusion
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