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
