Acres for Cents: Delinquent Tax Auctions in Frontier Iowa
by Swierenga, Robert P
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0837181674
- ISBN 13
- 9780837181677
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Westport, CT/London: Greenwood Press, 1976. Scholarly study of taxation, bureaucracy, land ownership, & confiscation in Iowa from 1860-1900; the author argues that, contrary to the Populist view that taxes were a means to control speculation, "taxes generated growth capital, not class unrest." Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, likely as issued. Number 46 in the publisher's Contributions in American History series. Light wear, corners slightly bumped/rubbed; minor scuffing to front cover. Text clean; xix, blank, 262 pages + note on the author; notes, appendixes with many charts & tables, bibliography, index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- v0257
- Title
- Acres for Cents: Delinquent Tax Auctions in Frontier Iowa
- Author
- Swierenga, Robert P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0837181674
- ISBN 13
- 9780837181677
- Publisher
- Greenwood Press
- Place of Publication
- Westport, CT/London
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Americana, Economics, Bureaucracy, Government, Politics, Agriculture, Taxation, Speculation,
- Size
- Octavo
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Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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Beloit, Wisconsin
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