Revolutionary Outlaws: Ethan Allen and the Struggle for Independence on the Early Americanfrontier

by Michael A. Bellesiles

Book Overview

In 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813914191
• ISBN13: 9780813914190
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A very fine and stimulating book

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in 18th century American history. It deals with a light hand with complex issues of both economic, political and religious history. It is also very cogently argued and entertaining.Great stuff.

The revolution within the Revolution

Yes, my name really is Ethan Allen. This is an excellently researched and well documented account about a very little known chapter of the American Revolution. The book is the story of Vermont's struggle for statehood. It explores the economic, social, and political pressures that led Vermonters to create their own government in spite of threats from Enland, New York, and Continental Congress. This book is a good study of how government derives its power from the people. The reading is a little slow at times, but good history often is, and this is more than worth the effort.