Free Download Wilbur R. Miller, "Revenuers and Moonshiners: Enforcing Federal Liquor Law in the Mountain South, 1865-1900"
English | 1991 | ISBN: 080784330X, 080781959X | EPUB | pages: 264 | 3.2 mb
The federal government’s attempt to enforce civil rights measures during Reconstruction is usually regarded as a failure. Far more successful, however, was the collection of federal excise taxes on liquor during the same period – an effort that secured for the government its single most important source of internal revenue. In Revenuers and Moonshiners Wilbur Miller explores the development and professionalization of the federal bureaucracy by examining federal liquor law enforcement in the mountain South after the Civil War. He addresses the central questions of the conditions under which unpopular federal laws could be enforced and the ways in which enforcement remained limited.