Supplemental readings for Slaughter, The Whiskey Rebellion

 

Abernethy, Thomas Perkins. From Frontier to Plantation in Tennessee: A Study in Frontier Democracy. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina press, 1932.

Aron, Stephen. How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky From Daniel Boone to Henry Clay. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Baldwin, Leland D. Whiskey Rebels: The Story of a Frontier Uprising. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1968.

Baptist, Edward E. Creating an Old South: Middle Florida's Plantation Frontier Before the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Barksdale, Kevin T. "Our Rebellious Neighbors: Virginia's Border Counties During Pennsylvania's Whiskey Rebellion." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 111, no. 1 (2003): 5-32.

Bassett, John Spencer. The Regulators of North Carolina (1765-1771). Washington: Government Printing Office, 1895.

Bellesiles, Michael A. Revolutionary Outlaws: Ethan Allen and the Struggle for Independence on the Early American Frontier. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.

Bouton, Terry. ""No Wonder the Times Were Troublesome": The Origins of the Fries Rebellion, 1783-1799." Pennsylvania History  67, no. 1 (2000): 21-42.

Boyd, Steven R. The Whiskey Rebellion: Past and Present Perspectives. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1985.

Brackenridge, H. H. Incidents of the Insurrection in the Western Parts of Pennsylvania, in the Year 1794. Philadelphia: Printed and sold by John M'Culloch, no. 1, North Third-Street.--, 1795.

Brown, Richard Maxwell. No Duty to Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.

Brown, Richard Maxwell.  The South Carolina Regulators. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1963.

Cayton, Andrew R. L. and Fredrika J. Teute, eds. Contact Points: American Frontiers From the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1998.

Churchill, Robert H. "Popular Nullification, Fries' Rebellion, and the Waning of Radical Republicanism, 1798-1801." Pennsylvania History 67, no. 1 (2000): 105-40.

Cleves, Rachel Hope. "On Writing the History of Violence." Journal of the Early Republic 24 (2004): 641-65.

Connor, George E. "The Politics of Insurrection: A Comparative Analysis of the Shays', Whiskey, and Fries' Rebellions."  Social Science Journal 29, no. 3 (1992): 259-81.

Cooke, Jacob E. "The Whiskey Insurrection: A Reevaluation." Pennsylvania History 30, no. 3 (1963): 316-46.

Countryman, Edward. "'Out of the Bounds of the Law': Northern Land Rioters in the Eighteenth Century."The American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism, ed. Alfred F. Young, 37-69. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1976.

Courtwright, David T. Violent Land: Single Men and Social Disorder From the Frontier to the Inner City. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Crow, Jeffrey J. "The Whiskey Rebellion in North Carolina." North Carolina Historical Review 66, no. 1 (1989): 1-28.

Davis, Jeffrey A. "Guarding the Republican Interest: the Western Pennsylvania Democratic Societies and the Excise Tax."  Pennsylvania History 67, no. 1 (2000): 43-62.

Denson, Andrew C. "Diversity, Religion, and the North Carolina Regulators." North Carolina Historical Review 72, no. 1 (1995): 30-53.

Duniway, Wilma A. The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Egerton, Douglas R. Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 & 1802. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993 .

Ekirch, A. Roger. "North Carolina Regulators on Liberty and Corruption, 1766-1771." Perspectives in American History 11 (1977): 197-256.

________. "Poor Carolina": Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981.

Faragher, John Mack. Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer. New York: Henry Holt , 1992.

Ferguson, Robert J. Early Western Pennsylvania Politics. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1938.

Fischer, David Hackett.  Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Backcountry section only

Gilje, Paul A. Rioting in America. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1999.

________. The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834 . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1987.

Gorn, Elliott J. ""Gouge and Bite, Pull Hair and Scratch": The Social Significance of Fighting in the Southern Backcountry." American Historical Review 90 (February 1985): 18-43.

Gould, Roger V. "Patron-Client Ties, State Centralization, and the Whiskey Rebellion." American Journal of Sociology 102, no. 2 (1996): 400-429.

Gross, Robert A., ed. In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.

Hatley, Tom. The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians Through the Revolutionary Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Hobsbawm, E. J. Primitive Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1965. OR

Hobsbawm, Eric. Bandits. New York: The New Press, 2000.

Jones, Maldwyn A. "The Scotch-Irish in British America." In Strangers Within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire, ed. Bernard Bailyn and Philip D. Morgan, 284-313. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1991.

Kars, Marjoleine. Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Kay, Marvin L. Michael. "The North Carolina Regulation, 1766-1776: A Class Conflict." In The American Revolution: Explorations in the History of American Radicalism, ed. Alfred F. Young, 71-123. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1976.

Klein, Rachel N. "Ordering the Backcountry: The South Carolina Regulation." William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser., 38, no. 4 (1981): 661-80.

Klein, Rachel N. Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760-1808. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1990.

Kohn, Richard H. "The Washington Administration's Decision to Crush the Whiskey Rebellion." Journal of American History 59, no. 3 (1972): 567-84.

Lee, Wayne E. Crowds and Soldiers in Revolutionary North Carolina:The Culture of Violence in Riot and War. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.

Leyburn, James G. The Scotch-Irish: A Social History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1962.

Martin, James Kirby. "The Return of the Paxton Boys and the Historical State of the Pennsylvania Frontier, 1764-1774." Pennsylvania History 38, no. 2 (1971): 117-33.

McConville, Brendan. These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace: The Struggle for Property and Power in Early New Jersey. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1999.

McWhiney, Grady. Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988.

Merrell, James H. Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier. New York: Norton, 1999.

Mitchell, Robert D., ed. Appalachian Frontiers: Settlement, Society & Development in the Preindustrial Era. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1991.

Neem, Johann N. "Freedom of Association in the Early Republic: The Republican Party, the Whiskey Rebellion, and the Philadelphia and New York Cordwainers' Cases." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 127, no. 3 (2003): 259-90.

Newman, Paul Douglas. "The Federalists' Cold War: the Fries Rebellion, National Security, and the State, 1787-1800." Pennsylvania History 67, no. 1 (2000): 63-104.

________. "Fries's Rebellion and American Political Culture, 1798-1800." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 119, no. 1-2 (1995): 37-73.

________. Fries's Rebellion: The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

Newman, Simon. "The World Turned Upside Down: Revolutionary Politics, Fries' and Gabriel's Rebellions, and the Fears of the Federalists." Pennsylvania History 67, no. 1 (2000): 5-20.

Olson, Alison. "The Pamphlet War Over the Paxton Boys." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 1999 123, no. 1-2: 31-55.

Pencak, William, Matthew Dennis, and Simon P. Newman, eds. Riot and Revelry in Early America. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002.

Richards, Leonard L. Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

Ridgway, Whitman H. "Fries in the Federalist Imagination: A Crisis of Republican Society." Pennsylvania History 67, no. 1 (2000): 141-60.

Roeber, A. G. "Citizens or Subjects? German-Lutherans and the Federal Constitution in Pennsylvania, 1789-1800." Amerikastudien-American Studies 34, no. 1 (1989): 49-68.

Rorabaugh, W. J. The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.

Sidbury, James. Ploughshares into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia, 1730-1810. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Slotkin, Richard. Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.

Szatmary, David P. Shays' Rebellion: The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.

Tachau, Mary K. Bonsteel. "The Whiskey Rebellion in Kentucky: a Forgotten Episode of Civil Disobedience." Journal of the Early Republic 2, no. 3 (1982): 239-59.

Taylor, Alan. Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1990.

________. William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

Thompson, E. P. Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture. New York: The New Press, 1990. Chapters 4, 5, & 8

Walters Jr., Raymond. Albert Gallatin: Jeffersonian Financier and Diplomat. New York: Macmillan, 1957.

Watson, Alan D. "The Origin of the Regulation in North Carolina." Mississippi Quarterly 47, no. 4 (1994): 567-98.

Whitten, David O. "An Economic Inquiry into the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794." Agricultural History 49, no. 3 (1975): 491-504.

Whittenburg, James P. "Planters, Merchants, and Lawyers: Social Change and the Origins of the North Carolina Regulation." William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser. 34, no. 2 (1977): 215-38.

Woodmason, Charles. The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1953.