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Shays´s Rebellion: Authority and Distress in Post-Revolutionary America
Sean Condon
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Description for Shays´s Rebellion: Authority and Distress in Post-Revolutionary America
Paperback. A masterful telling of a complicated story, Shays's Rebellion is aimed at scholars and students of American history. Series: Witness to History. Num Pages: 176 pages, 6, 6 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBTB; HBTV; HBWF; JWLF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
Throughout the late summer and fall of 1786, farmers in central and western Massachusetts organized themselves into armed groups to protest against established authority and aggressive creditors. Calling themselves "regulators" or the "voice of the people," these crowds attempted to pressure the state government to lower taxes and provide relief to debtors by using some of the same methods employed against British authority a decade earlier. From the perspective of men of wealth and station, these farmers threatened the foundations of society: property rights and their protection in courts and legislature. In this concise and compelling account of the uprising ... Read more
Throughout the late summer and fall of 1786, farmers in central and western Massachusetts organized themselves into armed groups to protest against established authority and aggressive creditors. Calling themselves "regulators" or the "voice of the people," these crowds attempted to pressure the state government to lower taxes and provide relief to debtors by using some of the same methods employed against British authority a decade earlier. From the perspective of men of wealth and station, these farmers threatened the foundations of society: property rights and their protection in courts and legislature. In this concise and compelling account of the uprising ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
Series
Witness to History
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421417431
SKU
V9781421417431
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About Sean Condon
Sean Condon is an associate professor and chair of the history department at Merrimack College.
Reviews for Shays´s Rebellion: Authority and Distress in Post-Revolutionary America
Condon succeeds by writing an engaging narrative in straightforward prose that builds excitement as it chronicles the revolutionary events in post-revolutionary Massachusetts... This brief but powerful book will be an ideal addition to undergraduate courses on the Revolution and early national era, and could accompany a survey of early American history for first-year college students as well. H-SHEAR ... [Condon] ... Read more