Farming dissenters : the Regulator movement in Piedmont North Carolina / Carole Watterson Troxler.

Author/creator Troxler, Carole Watterson
Other author North Carolina. Office of Archives and History.
Format Book
Publication InfoRaleigh, N.C. : Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, 2011.
Descriptionxiii, 221 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction : the Regulators and Alamance -- Land speculation and a geographic imbalance of power -- Orderly outbursts of backcountry resentment -- A century's legacy : dissenter religious culture as a carrier of political expectations -- Herman Husband, crystallizer -- The Sandy Creek network and its allies in the Regulator movement -- The gentlemen's agreement in Mecklenburg -- Petitions, court proceedings, and rioting in Hillsborough and Salisbury -- Tryon's militia, Regulator confrontation, and the Battle of Alamance -- Regulators as victims : repercussions of the militia attack -- Politics at work before the Revolution -- Land ownership and local power -- Religious divergence and growing support for revolution -- Appendix 1 : an incomplete compilation of names in a Regulator context -- Appendix 2 : Bibliographic essay : the historians and the Regulators -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p.167-201) and index.
LCCN 2011284077
ISBN9780865263505 (pbk.)
ISBN0865263507 (pbk.)
Other class# F1 2:F23
Stock number03100 NCTE

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner NC Stacks F257 .T66 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold
Joyner NC Stacks F257 .T66 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold