| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130.3

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Fries's Rebellion: The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution. By Paul Douglas Newman. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xii, 259p. Illustrations, notes, index. $29.95.)

Arguing that Fries's Rebellion, the resistance movement by German American Church people against the federal Direct Tax in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley in 1799, was an attempt "to expand the role of the people within the political system" (p. x), Newman successfully ties local events to the larger political, ethnic, religious, and social climate of the early republic. Newman goes beyond previous interpretations of the so-called rebellion that emphasize religious tensions between minority sectarians and majority Lutherans and Reformed Church people (Kirchenleute), ethnic differences between Anglo- and German Americans, popular opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts, or political conflicts between Hamiltonian Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans. By offering the variety of voices discernable in court records and newspapers, Newman shows that Fries's Rebellion "testified to the democratizing forces in politics and society unleashed by the American Revolution" (p. xii).

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