Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter iii
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. A Note on Terms xi
6. Abbreviations xiii
7. Introduction: These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace 1
8. Part One: Origins
9. 1. Violent Origins 11
10. 2. The Enlightenment s First Offensive: The Eighteenth-Century Proprietors and the Intellectual Origins of Their Land Claims 28
11. 3. Communities and Cultures: A Portrait 47
12. 4. The Faith of the People 67
13. 5. Snakes and Ladders: The Competition for New Jerseys Resources 90
14. Part Two: Conflict
15. 6. A Cage without Bars: Anglicization and the Breakdown of Order, 1730 -1745 107
16. 7. The People against the Government 137
17. 8. The Problem with Property 164
18. 9. Deference and Defiance: A Tale of Two Men 177
19. 10. The Problems of Social Healing 202
20. Part Three: To the Revolution
21. 11. Refinement and Resentment: The Transformations of the 1760s 223
22. 12. "These Audacious Insults to Government": From Rioters to Revolutionaries 238
23. Notes 257
24. Essay on Manuscript Sources 307
25. Index 311