Land Tenure and Land Taxation in America

Aaron Sakolski

Published by the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, New York / 1957

• Book Jacket: Front Cover
• Book Jacket Back Cover 1
• Book Jacket Back Cover 2

• Title Page
• Forward
• Contents

• Chapter 1:
  Landownership -- Its Philosophical and Political Aspects
• Chapter 2:
  The European Background
• Chapter 3:
  Land Systems of the Colonial Era
• Chapter 4:
  Virginia and the Proprietary Colonies
• Chapter 5:
  The Colonial Land Speculations
• Chapter 6:
  Land and the American Revolution
• Chapter 7:
  Post-Revolutionary State-Land Disposal
• Chapter 8:
  The Early History of the Public Domain
• Chapter 9:
  The Early Public Land Administration -- Town-Jobbing and Land Engrossment
• Chapter 10:
  The Louisiana Territory
• Chapter 11:
  The Public Domain under the Pre-emption Acts
• Chapter 12:
  The Public Domain Since the Homestead Act
• Chapter 13:
  Texas Land Disposal
• Chapter 14:
  The Early Railroad Land Grants
• Chapter 15:
  The Transcontinental Land Grants
• Chapter 16:
  Political Repercussions of Public Land Policy
• Chapter 17:
  Landownership and Land Disposal in Local Politics
• Chapter 18:
  Forest and Mineral Lands Developments
• Chapter 19:
  Farm Tenancy and Its Problems
• Chapter 20:
  The Rise of Urban Real Estate Values
• Chapter 21:
  The Land and Taxes
• Chapter 22:
  The Progress of Land Reform in the United States
• Chapter 23:
  Landownership: What of the Future?

• Selected Bibliography
• Index