 | War, Revenue, and State Building: Financing the Development of the American State Subjects: Revenue -- United States -- History; Revenue -- Europe -- History; Finance Public -- United States -- History; Finance Public -- Europe -- History; War -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History; War -- Economic aspects -- Europe -- History; Pollack shows how war, revenue, and institutional development are inextricably linked in the United States, delineating the mechanisms of political development and revealing the ways in which the United States, too, once was a "developing nation." Sheldon D. Pollack is Professor and Director of the Legal Studies Program, University of Delaware. He is author of Refinancing America: The Republican Antitax Agenda and The Failure of U.S. Tax Policy: Revenue and Politics . |
