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Jacob Green's Revolution:

Radical Religion and Reform in a Revolutionary Age
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Examines the ways religion influenced reform during the American Revolution in New Jersey. Focuses on two pivotal figures: Jacob Green, a Presbyterian minister who advocated revolution, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler, an Anglican minister and a leading loyalist spokesman.


Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Preface

Introduction

Part One: The Worlds of Jacob Green and Thomas Bradbury Chandler

Chapter 1 Student

Chapter 2 Pastor

Chapter 3 Father

Chapter 4 Farmer-Miller-Physician-Teacher

Part Two: Revolutionary Thinkers and the Trials of War

Chapter 5 Polemicist

Chapter 6 Revolutionary

Chapter 7 Politician

Chapter 8 Host

Part Three: Reformers on the Home Front

Chapter 9 Crusader

Chapter 10 Dissenter

Chapter 11 Disciplinarian

Epilogue


“This biography is a thought-provoking case study which can be used to introduce or illustrate the subject of religion at the time of the American Revolution. It succeeds in bringing the subject to life with direct, accessible prose.”

—Lotfi Ben Rejeb, The Canadian Journal of History

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