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The Whiskey Rebellion : frontier epilogue to the American Revolution /
When President George Washington ordered an army of 13,000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, he established a range of precedents that continues to define federal authority over localities today. The "Whiskey Rebellion" marked the first large-scale...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1986.
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| Colección: | Oxford University Press paperback.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; PART ONE: CONTEXT; One: The Tax Man Cometh; Two: The Quest for Frontier Autonomy; Three: Sectional Strife; Four: Lice, Labor, and Landscape; Five: George Washington and the Western Country; PART TWO: CHRONOLOGY; Six: Indians and the Excise; Seven: Assembly and Proclamation; Eight: Liberty, Order, and the Excise; Nine: Alternative Perspectives; Ten: Federalism Besieged; PART THREE: CONSEQUENCE; Eleven: Rebellion; Twelve: Response; Thirteen: A Tale of Two Riots and a Watermelon Army; Conclusion; AFTEEWORD; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O.