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compelling blend of legal and political history, this book chronicles the largest tenant rebellion in U, S. history. From its beginning in the rural villages of eastern New York inuntil its collapse in, the AntiRent movement impelled the state's governors, legislators, judges, and journalists, as well as delegates to New York's bellwether constitutional convention of, to wrestle with two difficult problems of

social policy.
One was how to put down violent tenant resistance to the enforcement of landlord property and contract rights, The second was how to abolish the archaic form of land tenure at the root of the rent strike,

Charles McCurdy considers the public debate on these questions from a fresh perspective, Instead of treating law and politics as dependent variablesas mirrors of social interests or accelerators of social changehe highlights the manifold ways in which law and politics shaped both the pattern of AntiRent violence and the drive for land reform.
In the process, he provides a major reinterpretation of the ideas and institutions that diminished the promise of American democracy in the supposed "golden age" of American law and politics.
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