The Militia and Civil Disorder: The Decline of a Republican Insitution, 1787-1808
FAIN: FT-13288-77
Lawrence Cress
University of Tulsa (Tulsa, OK 74104-9700)
To study how and why the militia declined in the early national period by examining the public and private reaction to its failure to maintain order during Shay's rebellion, the Whiskey Rebellion, and Jefferson's Embargo.