Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- 1. The Importance of Place: Cultural Diversity in Three River Towns -- 2. The Crisis of Everyday Life during the Revolutionary War -- 3. Local Struggles and National Order in the Postwar Period -- 4. Protestant Diversity in the New Nation -- 5. The Campaign for Christian Unity -- 6. The Campaign for Political Unity -- 7. The Persistence of Local Diversity -- Appendix A. Note on the Unit of Comparison -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
Liam Riordan explores how the American Revolution politicized religious, racial, and ethnic identity among the diverse inhabitants of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey from 1770 to 1830