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Title: Shays' Rebellion: The making of an agrarian insurrection by David P Szatmary ISBN: 0-87023-295-9 Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: 1980 Format: Unknown Binding

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Thoughtful analysis of an overlooked and underrated event.
Comment: Shays' Rebellion is often dismissed in the history books as an isolated incident following the American Revolution. Sometimes, it's grudingly given credit for spurring the Constitution Convention. In this well-balanced book, David P. Szatmary devotes the time and study necessary to classify Shays' Rebellion as the historical watershed it truly is. Shays' Rebellion signified more than economically depressed New England farmers waging war on creditors; it marked the beginning of the end of the American subsistence farmer. This change in an accepted way of life was at least as painful as the birth of the new United States. Szatmary chronicles how international influences forced a change in how merchants, farmers and artisans interacted, and how the initial changes brought friction. The rebellion resulting from this friction in turn revealed how ineffective the Articles of Confederation were in dealing with a crisis that could destroy the country. Szatmary links the state's governments weakness to the Constitution by using newspaper and editorial accounts of the day to provide a well-rounded view of an overlooked milestone.

Rating: 3
Summary: A good attempt in analyzing a seminal event.
Comment: David Szatmary gives a good and detalied account of the rebellion that shook the foundation of the young Republic. He discusses the cultural clash of the merchant and yeomanry quite well. However, he buys into the idea of the romantic yeoman farmer and loses his objectivity. His use of primary sources are liberal but not always appropriate. They fit the context of his thesis bu t fall into the "see I told you so." mold. Aside from these, possibly, semantic arguements, Shay's Rebellion is an excellent read. Szatmary gives vivid descriptions and tells a good story