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Breaking Loose Together: The Regulator Rebellion in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina. By Marjoleine Kars. (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2002. Pp. [xii], 286. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4999-5; cloth, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-2672-3.)
Historians such as Jeffrey J. Crow, A. Roger Ekirch, Marvin L. Michael Kay, and James P. Whittenburg have published fine studies of the Regulator movement in North Carolina. Marjoleine Kars, the author of this exceptional new book, builds upon this scholarship and offers an interpretation that is insightful and convincing. Her endnotes show that she has left no relevant document untouched, no secondary source unread. While much of this account is a highly detailed description of the events that concluded with the battle of Alamance in 1771, which "crushed" the movement (p. 192), the book is highly...