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"Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection offers the most nuanced and accurate understanding of the ""Western Insurrection"" available. Court cases--examined more closely here than in any previous study--illustrate the nascent emergence of a new national court system.--Robert Martin ""author of Government by Dissent: Protest, Resistance, and Radical Democratic Thought in the Early American Republic"""

Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection offers the most nuanced and accurate understanding of the ""Western Insurrection"" available. Court cases—examined more closely here than in any previous study—illustrate the nascent emergence of a new national court system."" — Robert Martin, author of Government by Dissent: Protest, Resistance, and Radical Democratic Thought in the Early American Republic

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Linda Myrsiades is professor emerita of English and Comparative Literature at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of several books, including Law and Medicine in Revolutionary America and Medical Culture in Revolutionary America. Myrsiades lives and writes in the Philadelphia suburbs.

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