Taking Sides in Revolutionary New Jersey

MAXINE N. LURIE is a professor emerita of history at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. She is the editor of A New Jersey Anthology and a co-editor of Encyclopedia of New Jersey, Mapping New Jersey: An Evolving Landscape, New Jersey: A History of the Garden State, and Envisioning New Jersey: An Illustrated History of the Garden State, all from Rutgers University Press.

• List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Overview of the Revolution in New Jersey: ChronologyChapter 2. Patriots Part I: The Adamant and DeterminedChapter 3. Patriots Part II: In the MaelstromChapter 4. Straddlers, Trimmers, and OpportunistsChapter 5. The Society of Friends (Called Quakers): Pacifists and ParticipantsChapter 6. Loyalists Part I: The IrreconcilablesChapter 7. Loyalists Part II: Remained or ReturnedChapter 8. EpilogueNotesIndex

"Lurie’s scholarship demonstrates her unmatched grasp of the American Revolution in New Jersey. Taking Sides in Revolutionary New Jersey contributes to a deeper understanding of the revolutionary era." - Jonathan Mercantini (author of Who Shall Rule at Home: The Evolution of South Carolina's Political Culture, 1748-1776) "With this volume, Lurie solidifies herself as the leading scholar of Revolutionary New Jersey by uncovering the vital role that people played in creating the 'messy complexity' of the Revolution in New Jersey. Lurie convincingly shows that Americans did not all agree on a path forward in 1776, joining the Patriots, Crown, or remaining neutral for a myriad of complex reasons. Taking Sides deftly exposes the civil war underway in the young state, including the war’s devastating economic toll on the state and its dramatic effect on individual people’s lives." - James Gigantino (author of The Ragged Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey) "Taking Sides uses numerous brief biographies to illustrate the American Revolution's complexity; it quotes from documents, pamphlets, diaries, letters, and poetry, a variety of sources to provide insight into the thoughts and reactions of those living through it all. It focuses on people rather than battles and provides perspective for the difficult choices we make in our own times." (New York Almanack)