These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace : : The Struggle for Property and Power in Early New Jersey / / Brendan McConville.
During the century preceding the American Revolution, bitter conflicts raged in New Jersey over control of the land tenure system. This book examines how the struggle between yeoman farmers and landed gentry shaped public life in the colony. At once a cultural, political, and social history, it care...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1999 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 9 drawings, 10 maps, 8 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Terms
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace
- Part One: Origins
- 1. Violent Origins
- 2. The Enlightenment s First Offensive: The Eighteenth-Century Proprietors and the Intellectual Origins of Their Land Claims
- 3. Communities and Cultures: A Portrait
- 4. The Faith of the People
- 5. Snakes and Ladders: The Competition for New Jerseys Resources
- Part Two: Conflict
- 6. A Cage without Bars: Anglicization and the Breakdown of Order, 1730 -1745
- 7. The People against the Government
- 8. The Problem with Property
- 9. Deference and Defiance: A Tale of Two Men
- 10. The Problems of Social Healing
- Part Three: To the Revolution
- 11. Refinement and Resentment: The Transformations of the 1760s
- 12. "These Audacious Insults to Government": From Rioters to Revolutionaries
- Notes
- Essay on Manuscript Sources
- Index