In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian RebellionIn Debt to Shays takes a fresh perspective on the rebellion by challenging existing understandings of late eighteenth-century America and restoring the rebellion to its historical context |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Religion Class | 16 |
The Public Creditor Interest in Massachusetts | 47 |
Debt Litigation and Shayss Rebellion | 81 |
The Federalist Reaction to Shayss Rebellion | 101 |
The Fine Theoretic Government of Massachusetts | 121 |
Forms | 145 |
The Influence of Shayss | 161 |
The Context of Rebellion | 185 |
The Religious World of Daniel Shays | 239 |
Separation and Ratification | 281 |
Notes | 323 |
Contributors | 391 |
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| Title | In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion Colonial Society of Massachusetts Series Volume 65 of Colonial Society of Massachusetts: Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts Volume 65 of Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Colonial Society of Massachusetts |
| Editor | Robert A. Gross |
| Contributors | Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Historic Deerfield, Inc |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Virginia Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0813913543, 9780813913544 |
| Length | 418 pages |
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