Table of Contents

Preface
Prologue
1. Defiance
2. Crackdown
3. Oath Takers and Leaders
4. The Revolutionary Government and Its Beneficiaries
5. Banner Towns and Core Families
6. Reverberations
7. Climax
Notes
Index

Promotional Information

Leonard L. Richards provides a clear picture of Shays's Rebellion, capturing the spirit of the insurgency, the reasons for the revolt, and its long-term impact on the participants, the state of Massachusetts, and the nation as a whole. Shays's Rebellion, though seemingly a local affair, was the revolution that gave rise to modern American democracy.

About the Author

Leonard L. Richards is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of numerous books, including The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780-1860 and The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams, a finalist in 1987 for the Pulitzer Prize for biography.

Reviews

"A carefully argued and spiritedly told account."--Boston Globe "Recommended for all library collections at every level."--Choice "Serves a valuable purpose by fleshing out a crucial period when the fate of the American democratic experiment hung in the balance."--American History