Shays's Rebellion The American Revolution's Final Battle

Name: Shays's Rebellion The American Revolution's Final Battle
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ISBN: 9780812218701

ISBN-10: 0812218701

ISBN-13: 9780812218701

Edition: 2002

Authors: Leonard L. Richards

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During the bitter winter of 1786-87, Daniel Shays, a modest farmer and Revolutionary War veteran, and his compatriot Luke Day led an unsuccessful armed rebellion against the state of Massachusetts. Their desperate struggle was fueled by the injustice of a regressive tax system and a conservative state government that seemed no better than British colonial rule. But despite the immediate failure of this local call-to-arms in the Massachusetts countryside, the event fundamentally altered the course of American history. Shays and his army of four thousand rebels so shocked the young nation's governing elite--even drawing the retired General George Washington back into the service of his…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 8/5/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Sharon R. Krause is professor in and chair of the Department of Political Science at Brown University. She is the author of Civil Passions and Liberalism with Honor.



Preface


Prologue



Defiance



Crackdown



Oath Takers and Leaders



The Revolutionary Government and Its Beneficiaries



Banner Towns and Core Families



Reverberations



Climax


Notes


Index