| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Land and Liberty: Hudson Valley Riots in the Age of Revolution. By Thomas J. Humphrey. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2004. x, 191 pp. $37.00, ISBN 0-87580-3296.)

This study of discontent in the Hudson River valley is intended as a firm corrective to existing scholarship. Thomas J. Humphrey charges earlier historians with limited vision—chronologically, geographically, or both—and with insufficient attention to the dialectic between the Revolution and ongoing unrest. He argues that casting a wider evidential net over both space and time (the entire valley from mid-century through the Revolution) will show, first, how insurgents moved from claims of ownership based upon title, practical possession (squatting), or improvement to a more sophisticated combination of the three, "insisting that their labor and occupancy of the land entitled them to own it," and, second, how disputes in the postrevolutionary period "infused long-standing disputes with Revolutionary rhetoric to forge new definitions of citizenship, property ownership, and civic equality" (p. 10).

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