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100 1 $aBellesiles, Michael A.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92078156
245 10 $aRevolutionary outlaws :$bEthan Allen and the struggle for independence on the early American frontier /$cMichael A. Bellesiles.
260 $aCharlottesville :$bUniversity Press of Virginia,$c1993.
263 $a9306
300 $axi, 428 pages :$bmap ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 371-408) and index.
505 0 $aCh. 1. Legacies -- Ch. 2. "No Change Was to Be Expected" -- Ch. 3. "The Fatigues of Settlement" -- Ch. 4. "Riotous Persons & Parties" -- Ch. 5. "On Wings of Glory" -- Ch. 6. "Our Injured Little Republic" -- Ch. 7. Law and Political Power -- Ch. 8. War, Diplomacy, and Independence -- Ch. 9. Frontier Philosopher -- Ch. 10. The Fate of Revolutionary Republicanism.
520 $aIn this revisionary look at the eighteenth-century frontier, Michael A. Bellesiles shows us that more than a legendary Revolutionary War hero, Ethan Allen was the leader of a group of frontier subsistence farmers united in their opposition to New York elites and land speculators; the independence Allen and his followers fought for was as much from eastern elites as it was from the British crown. But what makes the story of the Green Mountain frontier so remarkable is that the settlers won.
520 8 $aRevolutionary Outlaws is both a biography of Ethan Allen and a social history of the conflict between agrarian commoners and their wealthy adversaries. Beginning his political career with a price on his head, Allen was transformed by the American Revolution into a national hero. In the same way he and his outlaws, the Green Mountain Boys, became exemplars of republican virtue.
520 8 $aBut in their own eyes, these frontier farmers never changed their purpose; from 1764 until 1789 they battled the elites who sought to steal their land and reduce them to tenancy. A study in state formation, this book unites politics and social history. The poor farmers who settled the Green Mountain frontier not only fought efforts to dispossess them, they worked to create the state of Vermont, crafting the most democratic constitution of the eighteenth century.
520 8 $a.
520 8 $aAlthough he is a major figure, Ethan Allen has been overlooked by scholarly biographers, but in Michael Bellesiles he has found a historian worth the wait. Bellesiles shows how Allen's variegated careers as republican politician, local leader, military tactician, rationalist ideologue, and land speculator intersect with many key themes of American development in the last half of the eighteenth century.
520 8 $aRevolutionary Outlaws explores the roots of popular political commitment to the patriot cause, the significance of rural crowd activity, the character of popular religious culture and dissent, and the origins and structures of an emerging democratic polity.
600 10 $aAllen, Ethan,$d1738-1789.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79139711
650 0 $aRevolutionaries$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008110373
651 0 $aVermont$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85142832
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852 00 $bglx$hE207.A4$iB44 1993