New on the shelves – August 2015

new-book-making-modern-american-fiscal-stateOur list of new books is now updated.

Last month’s new books included titles on education, climate change, and legal careers. We also received a few new “non-legal” titles that are shelved with the social sciences titles, downstairs in the stacks. One of these, Making the Modern American Fiscal State: Law, Politics, and the Rise of Progressive Taxation, 1877-1929, by Ajay K Mehrotra, was highlighted on the TaxProf Blog earlier this year:

Mehrotra’s award-winning book is a tour de force. It chronicles a transformative period in the development of the American fiscal state during which the old order — characterized by indirect, hidden, mercilessly regressive, and partisan taxation — gave way to a direct, transparent, steeply progressive, and professionally administered tax regime. …Mehrotra identifies and informs all of the relevant schools of thought about state-building at the turn of the century, including the influence of national crises, the “corporate liberal” view that Progressive Era reforms were designed to deflect more radical change, “progressive” historical accounts of ineluctable advancement and “great men,” and “democratic-institutionalism” as advanced not just by historians but also political scientists, sociologists, and economists.1

Check it out downstairs in the Stacks at HJ 2373 .M44 2013.

The Law Library’s collection is constantly growing as we purchase books and other resources to support the scholarly and clinical work of faculty and students. Please let us know if you have a suggestion for a new book.

1 Dennis J. Ventry Jr., Book Review, 46 J. Interdisc. Hist. 133 (2015), via Paul Caron, Ventry Reviews Mehrotra’s Making the Modern American Fiscal State, TaxProf Blog, (Jun. 3, 2015), http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2015/06/ventry-reviews-mehrotras-.html.