| Foreword | ||
| Editor's Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: The Uninvited Guest: Daniel Shays and the Constitution | 1 | |
| Pt. 1 | Merchants and Magistrates | |
| 1 | The Public Creditor Interest in Massachusetts Politics, 1780-86 | 47 |
| 2 | Shays's Rebellion in Long Perspective: The Merchants and the "Money Question" | 57 |
| 3 | Debt Litigation and Shays's Rebellion | 81 |
| 4 | The Federalist Reaction to Shays's Rebellion | 101 |
| Pt. 2 | PoliticaI Cultures in Conflict | |
| 5 | "The Fine Theoretic Government of Massachusetts Is Prostrated to the Earth": The Response to Shays's Rebellion Reconsidered | 121 |
| 6 | Regulators and White Indians: Forms of Agrarian Resistance in Post-Revolutionary New England | 145 |
| 7 | Reinterpreting Rebellion: The Influence of Shays's Rebellion on American Political Thought | 161 |
| Pt. 3 | A Splintered Society | |
| 8 | Shays's Neighbors: The Context of Rebellion in Pelham, Massachusetts | 185 |
| 9 | A Deacon's Orthodoxy: Religion, Class, and the Moral Economy of Shays's Rebellion | 205 |
| 10 | The Religious World of Daniel Shays | 239 |
| Pt. 4 | Consolidating the Republic | |
| 11 | In Shays's Shadow: Separation and Ratification of the Constitution in Maine | 281 |
| 12 | The Confidence Man and the Preacher: The Cultural Politics of Shays's Rebellion | 297 |
| Notes | 323 | |
| Contributors | 391 | |
| Index | 393 |
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