Dear Philip:

I'd start with these:

A Free Soil - A Free People The Anti-Rent War in Delaware County, New York
by Dorothy Kubik. ---new book from Purple Mountain Press

Tin Horns and Calico, a Decisive Episode in the Emergence of Democracy
by Henry Christman --- a classic from the 1940s

Landlords and Farmers in the Hudson-Mohawk Region, 1790-1850
by David Maldwyn Ellis --- an other classic

For historical background, see Landlord and Tenant in Colonial New York :
Manorial Society, 1664-1775 by Sung Bok Kim, as well as the various earlier
works Kim's book is a corrective to.

Encourage your student to study this fascinating "episode"--the only mention
of North America in The Communist Manifesto is about the anti-rent movement.
We need a good scholarly treatment à la S.B. Kim on this.

Edward Knoblauch
University at Albany

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Date: Friday, May 29, 1998 9:08 AM
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>I have a student in need of suggestions of secondary sources on the
>anti-rent war. Any ideas?
>
>Philip G. Terrie, Director
>American Culture Studies
>Bowling Green State University
>Bowling Green, OH 43403-0237
>USA
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