Author: Minot, George Richards
Title: The History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts in the Year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Six and the Rebellion Consequent Thereon
Description: Boston, Mass, James W. Burditt & Co, 1810. Second Edition. Leather-bound. Octavo. Contemporary mottled calf, with later contrasting brick-red spine label, titled in gilt,and (spine) triple-ruled in gilt. Rubbing to extremes. Recent professional hinge repair. Binding sound. Endpapers and title page browned, Moderate foxing throughout, but not to obscure. Biopredation to last blank, at edges. [iv]192 (1) p. An account of Shay's Rebellion by a knowledgeable observer who understood & sympathized with the rebels, but who could not in the last analysis condone the rebellion. Valuable contemporary history. Minot was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Sabin 49324. Daniel Shays was a Revolutionary war hero who fought at Bunker Hill, then distinguished himself at Saratoga, and Stony Point. After the Revolution rural communities were particularly hard hit by deflation, credit contractions, and hard currency shortages, particularly when the state government sought to service its wartime debt. According to a 1784 tax valuation, Shays was slightly more prosperous than the average resident of Pelham, but he was twice taken to court in debt actions by innkeeper William Conkey. Depressed conditions throughout the western counties set the stage for popular mobilization against the courts beginning in August 1786. An angry crowd at Northampton prevented the court of common pleas from sitting on 29 August, the first in an escalating series of confrontations that led Governor James Bowdoin (1726-1790) to outlaw the movement's leaders and resulted in the death of two "Regulators" by gunfire at the Springfield arsenal on 25 January. (Peter S. Onuf, in ANB - American National Biography) "..Shays' Rebellion was depicted by nationalist reformers who promoted a more powerful national government as symptomatic of incipient anarchy. Just as in Massachusetts, where Shays's supposedly dictatorial ambitions were vastly exaggerated by progovernment polemicists, Shays was described by the Federalists as a would-be tyrant and despot. But Shays was a reluctant leader of a loosely organized campaign for limited goals that was suppressed with relative ease, although Shaysite exiles conducted a series of violent actions from neighboring states.." Minot, a well-respected judge, "was well known to his contemporaries as a participant in the political events of his time.. and even though Minot's personal sympathies are unmistkably with the Commonwealth, [Minot's analysis of the uprising] is writen on the whole in a dignified and temperate spirit..and shows the author's familiarity with the views of the leading men of the time." (Larned 1659). Good .
Keywords: Massachusetts History, Daniel Shays, Shay's Rebellion, Whiskey Tax, Job Shattuck, Oliver Parker, Daniel Shays, Abaa-Ny-2022
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Title: The History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts in the Year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Six and the Rebellion Consequent Thereon
Description: Boston, Mass, James W. Burditt & Co, 1810. Second Edition. Leather-bound. Octavo. Contemporary mottled calf, with later contrasting brick-red spine label, titled in gilt,and (spine) triple-ruled in gilt. Rubbing to extremes. Recent professional hinge repair. Binding sound. Endpapers and title page browned, Moderate foxing throughout, but not to obscure. Biopredation to last blank, at edges. [iv]192 (1) p. An account of Shay's Rebellion by a knowledgeable observer who understood & sympathized with the rebels, but who could not in the last analysis condone the rebellion. Valuable contemporary history. Minot was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Sabin 49324. Daniel Shays was a Revolutionary war hero who fought at Bunker Hill, then distinguished himself at Saratoga, and Stony Point. After the Revolution rural communities were particularly hard hit by deflation, credit contractions, and hard currency shortages, particularly when the state government sought to service its wartime debt. According to a 1784 tax valuation, Shays was slightly more prosperous than the average resident of Pelham, but he was twice taken to court in debt actions by innkeeper William Conkey. Depressed conditions throughout the western counties set the stage for popular mobilization against the courts beginning in August 1786. An angry crowd at Northampton prevented the court of common pleas from sitting on 29 August, the first in an escalating series of confrontations that led Governor James Bowdoin (1726-1790) to outlaw the movement's leaders and resulted in the death of two "Regulators" by gunfire at the Springfield arsenal on 25 January. (Peter S. Onuf, in ANB - American National Biography) "..Shays' Rebellion was depicted by nationalist reformers who promoted a more powerful national government as symptomatic of incipient anarchy. Just as in Massachusetts, where Shays's supposedly dictatorial ambitions were vastly exaggerated by progovernment polemicists, Shays was described by the Federalists as a would-be tyrant and despot. But Shays was a reluctant leader of a loosely organized campaign for limited goals that was suppressed with relative ease, although Shaysite exiles conducted a series of violent actions from neighboring states.." Minot, a well-respected judge, "was well known to his contemporaries as a participant in the political events of his time.. and even though Minot's personal sympathies are unmistkably with the Commonwealth, [Minot's analysis of the uprising] is writen on the whole in a dignified and temperate spirit..and shows the author's familiarity with the views of the leading men of the time." (Larned 1659). Good .
Keywords: Massachusetts History, Daniel Shays, Shay's Rebellion, Whiskey Tax, Job Shattuck, Oliver Parker, Daniel Shays, Abaa-Ny-2022
Price: US$ 300.00 Seller: Aardvark Books
- Book number: 82631
- Book number: 82631
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