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Book Synopsis Traders and Gentlefolk by : Cynthia A. Kierner
Download or read book Traders and Gentlefolk written by Cynthia A. Kierner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including among their number a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the founder of an ironworks, the Livingstons were a prominent family in the political, economic, and social life of colonial New York. Drawing on a rich array of sources, Cynthia Kierner vividly recreates the history of four generations of Livingstons and sheds new light on the development of both the elite ideology they represented and of the wider culture of early America. Although New York's colonial elite have been considered self-interested political intriguers, Kierner contends that the Livingstons idealized gentility and public-spiritedness, industry and morality. She shows how New York's most successful traders became gentlefolk without abandoning their entrepreneurial values, how they forged a distinct culture, and how the Revolution ultimately occasioned the rejection of elite political authority. Traders and Gentlefolk focuses on the lives of four members of the family: Robert Livingston, a Scottish emigrant who, with his wife Alida Schuyler, attained substantial political influence and acquired Livingston Manor; their son Philip, whose outstanding commercial talents secured his descendants' financial security; Philip's son, William, an outspoken civic leader and energetic supporter of American independence; and Robert R. Livingston, a jurist and diplomat whose aristocratic temperament prevented him from playing a vital role in post-Revolutionary politics.
Book Synopsis Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York 1746-1813 by : George Dangefield
Download or read book Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York 1746-1813 written by George Dangefield and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Home-maker written by Marion Harland and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton by : Alexander Hamilton
Download or read book The Law Practice of Alexander Hamilton written by Alexander Hamilton and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although deconstruction has become a popular catchword, as an intellectual movement it has never entirely caught on within the university. For some in the academy, deconstruction, and Jacques Derrida in particular, are responsible for the demise of accountability in the study of literature. Countering these facile dismissals of Derrida and deconstruction, Herman Rapaport explores the incoherence that has plagued critical theory since the 1960s and the resulting legitimacy crisis in the humanities. Against the backdrop of a rich, informed discussion of Derrida's writings -- and how they have been misconstrued by critics and admirers alike -- The Theory Mess investigates the vicissitudes of Anglo-American criticism over the past thirty years and proposes some possibilities for reform.
Book Synopsis Gazetteer of the State of New York by : Franklin Benjamin Hough
Download or read book Gazetteer of the State of New York written by Franklin Benjamin Hough and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic by : Thomas H. Cox
Download or read book Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic written by Thomas H. Cox and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society in the Early Republic examines a landmark decision in American jurisprudence, the first Supreme Court case to deal with the thorny legal issue of interstate commerce. Decided in 1824, Gibbons v. Ogden arose out of litigation between owners of rival steamboat lines over passenger and freight routes between the neighboring states of New York and New Jersey. But what began as a local dispute over the right to ferry the paying public from the New Jersey shore to New York City soon found its way into John Marshall’s court and constitutional history. The case is consistently ranked as one of the twenty most significant Supreme Court decisions and is still taught in constitutional law courses, cited in state and federal cases, and quoted in articles on constitutional, business, and technological history. Gibbons v. Ogden initially attracted enormous public attention because it involved the development of a new and sensational form of technology. To early Americans, steamboats were floating symbols of progress—cheaper and quicker transportation that could bring goods to market and refinement to the backcountry. A product of the rough-and-tumble world of nascent capitalism and legal innovation, the case became a landmark decision that established the supremacy of federal regulation of interstate trade, curtailed states’ rights, and promoted a national market economy. The case has been invoked by prohibitionists, New Dealers, civil rights activists, and social conservatives alike in debates over federal regulation of issues ranging from labor standards to gun control. This lively study fills in the social and political context in which the case was decided—the colorful and fascinating personalities, the entrepreneurial spirit of the early republic, and the technological breakthroughs that brought modernity to the masses.
Book Synopsis Key to the Northern Country by : James M. Johnson
Download or read book Key to the Northern Country written by James M. Johnson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hudson River Valley, which George Washington referred to as the "Key to the Northern Country," played a central role in the American Revolution. From 1776 to 1780, with major battles fought at Saratoga, Fort Montgomery, and Stony Point, the region was a central battleground of the Revolution. In addition, it witnessed some of the most dramatic and memorable aspects of the war, such as Benedict Arnold's failed conspiracy at West Point, the burning of New York's capital at Kingston, and the more than six-hundred-mile march of Washington and the Continental Army and Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, and his French Expeditionary Corps to Yorktown, Virginia. Compiled from essays that appeared in the Hudson Valley Regional Review and the Hudson River Valley Review, published by the Hudson River Valley Institute, the book illustrates the richly textured history of this supremely important time and place.
Book Synopsis Reports of Cases in Law and Equity in the Supreme Court of the State of New York by : Oliver Lorenzo Barbour
Download or read book Reports of Cases in Law and Equity in the Supreme Court of the State of New York written by Oliver Lorenzo Barbour and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reports of Cases in Law and Equity Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of New York by : Oliver Lorenzo Barbour
Download or read book Reports of Cases in Law and Equity Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of New York written by Oliver Lorenzo Barbour and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Columbia County at the End of the Century by :
Download or read book Columbia County at the End of the Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Class Matters written by Simon Middleton and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a category of historical analysis, class is dead—or so it has been reported over the past two decades. The contributors to Class Matters contest this demise. Although differing in their approaches, they all agree that socioeconomic inequality remains indispensable to a true understanding of the transition from the early modern to modern era in North America and the rest of the Atlantic world. As a whole, they chart the emergence of class as a concept and its subsequent loss of analytic purchase in Anglo-American historiography. The opening section considers the dynamics of class relations in the Atlantic world across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—from Iroquoian and Algonquian communities in North America to tobacco lords in Glasgow. Subsequent chapters examine the cultural development of a new and aspirational middle class and its relationship to changing economic conditions and the articulation of corporate and industrial ideologies in the era of the American Revolution and beyond. A final section shifts the focus to the poor and vulnerable—tenant farmers, infant paupers, and the victims of capital punishment. In each case the authors describe how elite Americans exercised their political and social power to structure the lives and deaths of weaker members of their communities. An impassioned afterword urges class historians to take up the legacies of historical materialism. Engaging the difficulties and range of meanings of class, the essays in Class Matters seek to energize the study of social relations in the Atlantic world.
Book Synopsis Record Book by : Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York
Download or read book Record Book written by Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gazetteer of the State of New York by : John Homer French
Download or read book Gazetteer of the State of New York written by John Homer French and published by Syracuse : R.P.Smith. This book was released on 1860 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Masonic Standard written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis General Register of the Society of Colonial Wars, 1899-1902 by : General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.)
Download or read book General Register of the Society of Colonial Wars, 1899-1902 written by General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the constitution, registers of officers of both the national and the state societies, plus an index of ancestors and descendants.
Book Synopsis General Register of the Society of Colonial Wars by : General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.)
Download or read book General Register of the Society of Colonial Wars written by General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the constitution, registers of officers of both the national and the state societies plus an index of ancestors and descendants.
Book Synopsis Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries by : Sean D. Moore
Download or read book Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries written by Sean D. Moore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early American libraries stood at the nexus of two transatlantic branches of commerce—the book trade and the slave trade. Slavery and the Making of Early American Libraries bridges the study of these trades by demonstrating how Americans' profits from slavery were reinvested in imported British books and providing evidence that the colonial book market was shaped, in part, by the demand of slave owners for metropolitan cultural capital. Drawing on recent scholarship that shows how participation in London cultural life was very expensive in the eighteenth century, as well as evidence that enslavers were therefore some of the few early Americans who could afford to import British cultural products, the volume merges the fields of the history of the book, Atlantic studies, and the study of race, arguing that the empire-wide circulation of British books was underwritten by the labour of the African diaspora. The volume is the first in early American and eighteenth-century British studies to fuse our growing understanding of the material culture of the transatlantic text with our awareness of slavery as an economic and philanthropic basis for the production and consumption of knowledge. In studying the American dissemination of works of British literature and political thought, it claims that Americans were seeking out the forms of citizenship, constitutional traditions, and rights that were the signature of that British identity. Even though they were purchasing the sovereignty of Anglo-Americans at the expense of African-Americans through these books, however, some colonials were also making the case for the abolition of slavery.
