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050	0	0	_aE315 _b.S59 1986
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100	1		_aSlaughter, Thomas P. _q(Thomas Paul) _917418
245	1	4	_aThe Whiskey Rebellion : _bfrontier epilogue to the American Revolution / _cThomas P. Slaughter
260			_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c1986
300			_a291 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-278) and index
505	0		_aContext: -- The tax man cometh -- The quest for frontier autonomy -- Sectional strife -- Lice, labor, and landscape -- George Washington and the western country; -- Chronology: -- Indians and the excise -- Assembly and proclamation -- Liberty, order, and the excise -- Alternative perspectives -- Federalism besieged; -- Consequence: -- Rebellion -- Response -- A tale of two riots and a watermelon army; -- Conclusion
520			_aIn 1794, "the single largest example of armed resistance to a law of the United States between the ratification of the Constitution and the Civil War" occurred in four frontier counties of western Pennsylvania when angry farmers there refused to pay an excise tax on whiskey-- a tax recently enacted by the new Federal government in Philadelphia. Forming themselves into mobs and sometimes disguised as Indians in deliberate imitation of the Boston Tea Party, the farmers physically assaulted the excise collectors. The response of Washington's first administration to this "Whiskey Rebellion" was swift and dramatic- he ordered an army of 13,000 to march west and crush this rebellion, thereby establishing a range of precedents that continue to define federal authority over localities to this day. The author presents not only a major new scholarly interpretation of the event, but a bold bid to establish the rebellion as a paradigm for understanding the ongoing debate between the defenders of liberty and the advocates of order through the entire sweep of our nation's history. -- Howard Lamar, Book jacket
520			_aThis book assesses the rebellion in relation to interregional tensions, international diplomacy, frontier expansion, republican ideology and the social and political conflict of the l780s -1790s
650		0	_aWhiskey Rebellion, Pa., 1794 _917419
650		0	_aExcise tax _917420
650		0	_aWhiskey _xTaxation _917421
650		0	_aTaxation of articles of consumption _917422
650		0	_aGovernment, Resistance to _zPennsylvania _917423
650		0	_aCivil disobedience _917424
650		0	_aTaxation _xPublic opinion _917425
651		0	_aPennsylvania _xHistory _917426
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aSlaughter, Thomas P. (Thomas Paul) _tWhiskey Rebellion. _dNew York : Oxford University Press, 1986 _w(OCoLC)561699672
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aSlaughter, Thomas P. (Thomas Paul) _tWhiskey Rebellion. _dNew York : Oxford University Press, 1986 _w(OCoLC)604976843
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