| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Book Review

Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle. By Leonard L. Richards. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. x, 204 pp. $24.95,ISBN 0-8122-3669-6.)

In Shays's Rebellion, Leonard L. Richards contends that long-accepted conclusions about the rebellion can no longer stand. Richards argues that most rebels were not debt-ridden, not all were poor, and not all came from towns at odds over religion. While a conservative clergy denounced the rebellion, leaders drew their support from rural communities bound tightly by family, ethnicity, and culture, but they lacked the prestige to inspire more men to arms. The rebels sought to regulate the political tyranny of the Massachusetts legislature personified by the tax man, making Shays's Rebellion more of a political regulation than an economic uprising. Before examining who participated in the regulation and how it influenced ongoing debates over power, Richards recounts the story of Shays's Regulation.

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