| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Marjoleine Kars. Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. x, 286. Cloth $49.95, paper $19.95.

Marjoleine Kars casts the North Carolina Regulators as families "seeking a haven for independent farming" in a colony controlled by men seeking "to create a society dominated by large plantations and enslaved laborers" (p. 7). If she roots the conflict in different economic ways of life, however, she does not stop her analysis there. She provides a subtle neo-progressive reading that moves from the economics of land use, to the religious beliefs through which small farmers interpreted life in the piedmont, and on to the politics of land and law in the years immediately preceding the climactic Battle of Alamance in May 1771. The North Carolina Regulation was "an instance of resistance to the slow and massive shift in social conscience that accompanied the transition to market economics" (p. 6), but her Regulators are not stock figures in a preconceived social conflict. Instead she provides a sharp analytical framework within which to understand the conflicts that wracked North Carolina during the decade prior to the American Revolution while presenting the contradictions and complications of the participants in those conflicts. . . .

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