| In Debt to Shay's: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion Contributor(s): Gross, Robert a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813913543 ISBN-13: 9780813913544 Publisher: Colonial Society of Massachusetts OUR PRICE: $38.12 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1992 Annotation: In January 1787 Daniel Shays, a hero of the American Revolution, and an army of farmers, enraged by the program of heavy taxes imposed by the state government in Boston to pay the costs of the Revolutionary War, launched an attack on the federal arsenal at Springfield, Massachusetts. The uprising was easily suppressed, but to this day debate still rages over Shay's Rebellion, its relevance to the American Revolution, and its influence on the formation of the United States Constitution. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) |
| Dewey: 974.403 |
| LCCN: 92010332 |
| Series: Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts |
| Physical Information: 1.23" H x 6.23" W x 9.28" (1.70 lbs) 418 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 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 |