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Traders and Gentlefolk

Author : Cynthia A. Kierner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150173153X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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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.

Traders and Gentlefolk

Author : Cynthia Anne Kierner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book Traders and Gentlefolk written by Cynthia Anne Kierner and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Traders and Gentlefolk

Author : Cynthia A. Kierner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1242 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Traders and Gentlefolk written by Cynthia A. Kierner and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

William Livingston's American Revolution

Author : James J. Gigantino II
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812295501
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book William Livingston's American Revolution written by James J. Gigantino II and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Livingston's American Revolution explores how New Jersey's first governor experienced the American Revolution and managed a state government on the war's front lines. A wartime bureaucrat, Livingston played a pivotal role in a pivotal place, prosecuting the war on a daily basis for eight years. Such second-tier founding fathers as Livingston were the ones who actually administered the war and guided the day-to-day operations of revolutionary-era governments, serving as the principal conduits between the local wartime situation and the national demands placed on the states. In the first biography of Livingston published since the 1830s, James J. Gigantino's examination is as much about the position he filled as about the man himself. The reluctant patriot and his roles as governor, member of the Continental Congress, and delegate to the Constitutional Convention quickly became one, as Livingston's distinctive personality molded his office's status and reach. A tactful politician, successful lawyer, writer, satirist, political operative, gardener, soldier, and statesman, Livingston became the longest-serving patriot governor during a brutal war that he had not originally wanted to fight or believed could be won. Through Livingston's life, Gigantino examines the complex nature of the conflict and the choice to wage it, the wartime bureaucrats charged with administering it, the constant battle over loyalty on the home front, the limits of patriot governance under fire, and the ways in which wartime experiences affected the creation of the Constitution.

Land and Freedom

Author : Reeve Huston
Publisher : Rural Society, Popular Protest
ISBN 13 : 9780195158229
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Land and Freedom written by Reeve Huston and published by Rural Society, Popular Protest. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 19th century, most of New York's farmland was controlled by a few families. In 1839, some tenants created a movement to destroy the estates and to redistribute the land. This work brings to life the voices of antebellum northern farmers as they debated social and political issues.

Forming American Politics

Author : Alan Tully
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421436000
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Forming American Politics written by Alan Tully and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1994. In this pathbreaking book Alan Tully offers an unprecedented comparative study of colonial political life and a rethinking of the foundations of American political culture. Tully chooses for his comparison the two colonies that arguably had the most profound impact on American political history—New York and Pennsylvania, the rich and varied colonies at the geographical and ideological center of British colonial America. Fundamental to the book is Tully's argument that out of Anglo-American influences and the cumulative character of each colonial experience, New York and Pennsylvania developed their own distinctive but complementary characteristics. In making this case Tully enters—from a new perspective—the prominent argument between the "classical republican" and "liberal" views of early American public thought. He contends that the radical Whig element of classical republicanism was far less influential than historians have believed and that the political experience of New York and Pennsylvania led to their role as innovators of liberal political concepts and discourse. In a conclusion that pursues his insights into the revolutionary and early republican years, Tully underlines a paradox in American political development: not only were the pathbreaking liberal politicians of New York and Pennsylvania the least inclined towards revolutionary fervor, but their political language and concepts—integral to an emerging liberal democratic order—were rooted in oligarchical political practice. "A momentous contribution to the burgeoning literature on the middle Atlantic region, and to the vexed question of whether it constitutes a coherent cultural configuration. Tully argues persuasively that it does, and his arguments will have to be reckoned with like few that have gone before, even as he develops an array of differences between the two colonies more subtle and penetrating than any of his predecessors has ever put forth."—Michael Zuckerman, University of Pennsylvania.

Bound by Bondage

Author : Nicole Saffold Maskiell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501764268
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Bound by Bondage written by Nicole Saffold Maskiell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first generations of European settlement in North America, a number of interconnected Northeastern families carved out private empires. In Bound by Bondage, Nicole Saffold Maskiell argues that slavery was a crucial component to the rise and enduring influence of this emergent aristocracy. Dynastic families built prestige based on shared notions of mastery, establishing sprawling manorial estates and securing cross-colonial landholdings and trading networks that stretched from the Northeast to the South, the Caribbean, and beyond. The members of this elite class were mayors, governors, senators, judges, and presidents, and they were also some of the largest slaveholders in the North. Aspirations to power and status, grounded in the political economy of human servitude, ameliorated ethnic and religious rivalries, and united once antagonistic Anglo and Dutch families, ensuring that Dutch networks endured throughout the English and then Revolutionary periods. Using original research drawn from archives across several continents in multiple languages, Maskiell expertly traces the origin of these private familial empires back to the founding generations of the Northeastern colonies and follows their growth to the eve of the American Revolutionary War. Maskiell reveals a multiracial Early America, where enslaved traders, woodsmen, millers, maids, bakers, and groomsmen developed expansive networks of their own that challenged the power of the elites, helping in escapes, in trade, and in simple camaraderie. In Bound by Bondage, Maskiell writes a new chapter in the history of early North America and connects developing Northern networks of merit to the invidious institution of slavery.

Reluctant Revolutionaries

Author : Joseph S. Tiedemann
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801474958
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Reluctant Revolutionaries written by Joseph S. Tiedemann and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of why New Yorkers were such reluctant revolutionaries has long bedeviled historians. In an innovative study of New York City between 1763 and 1776, Joseph S. Tiedemann explains how conscientiously residents labored to build a consensus under difficult circumstances. New Yorkers acted the way they did not because they were mostly loyalist or because a few patrician conservatives were able to stem the tide of revolution but because the population of their city was so heterogeneous that consensus was not easily achieved.Differences within the city's pluralistic population slowed the process of hammering out a course of action acceptable to the large majority. The consensus that finally emerged had to be cautious rather than militant in order to unite as many people as possible behind the revolutionary banner. Ultimately, the time it took was far less significant, Tiedemann notes, than the fact that New York proceeded to declare independence, and went on to become a pivotal state in the new nation. In framing his argument, Tiedemann explains the limitations of interpretations offered by both progressive, New Left, and consensus historians. Citing the work of scholars as diverse as Walter Laqueur, Theda Skocpol, and Louis Kreisberg, Tiedemann pays close attention to the dynamics of British colonial rule and its impact on New York.

Columbia Rising

Author : John L. Brooke
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 080783887X
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Columbia Rising written by John L. Brooke and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Columbia Rising, Bancroft Prize-winning historian John L. Brooke explores the struggle within the young American nation over the extension of social and political rights after the Revolution. By closely examining the formation and interplay of political structures and civil institutions in the upper Hudson Valley, Brooke traces the debates over who should fall within and outside of the legally protected category of citizen. The story of Martin Van Buren threads the narrative, since his views profoundly influenced American understandings of consent and civil society and led to the birth of the American party system. Brooke's analysis of the revolutionary settlement as a dynamic and unstable compromise over the balance of power offers a window onto a local struggle that mirrored the nationwide effort to define American citizenship.

Gentlefolk in the Making

Author : John E. Mason
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512804312
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Gentlefolk in the Making written by John E. Mason and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed compilation of books on polite conduct from Elyot's The Governour to Chesterfield's Letters, with generous quotations from the more important ones.

Yale, Slavery and Abolition

Author : Antony Dugdale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yale, Slavery and Abolition written by Antony Dugdale and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes Yale University's historical connection with slavery, beginning in colonial times, and with abolition, and questions why the university persisted, as late as the 1960s, to name buildings in honor of proponents of slavery.

Unfriendly to Liberty

Author : Christopher F. Minty
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150176912X
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Unfriendly to Liberty written by Christopher F. Minty and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Unfriendly to Liberty, Christopher F. Minty explores the origins of loyalism in New York City between 1768 and 1776, and revises our understanding of the coming of the American Revolution. Through detailed analyses of those who became loyalists, Minty argues that would-be loyalists came together long before Lexington and Concord to form an organized, politically motivated, and inclusive political group that was centered around the DeLancey faction. Following the DeLanceys' election to the New York Assembly in 1768, these men, elite and nonelite, championed an inclusive political economy that advanced the public good, and they strongly protested Parliament's reorientation of the British Empire. For New York loyalists, it was local politics, factions, institutions, and behaviors that governed their political activities in the build up to the American Revolution. By focusing on political culture, organization, and patterns of allegiance, Unfriendly to Liberty shows how the contending allegiances of loyalists and patriots were all but locked in place by 1775 when British troops marched out of Boston to seize caches of weapons in neighboring villages. Indeed, local political alignments that were formed in the imperial crises of the 1760s and 1770s provided a critical platform for the divide between loyalists and patriots in New York City. Political and social disputes coming out of the Seven Years' War, more than republican radicalization in the 1770s, forged the united force that would make New York City a center of loyalism throughout the American Revolution.

The Cambridge Economic History of Europe

Author : Sir John Harold Clapham
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521087100
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Economic History of Europe written by Sir John Harold Clapham and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1941 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association with the Quarterly Journal

Author : New York State Historical Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association with the Quarterly Journal written by New York State Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

For Adam's Sake

Author : Allegra Di Bonaventura
Publisher : Liveright
ISBN 13 : 0871404303
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book For Adam's Sake written by Allegra Di Bonaventura and published by Liveright. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the New England Historical Association’s James P. Hanlan Book Award Winner the Association for the Study of Connecticut History’s Homer D. Babbidge Jr. Award “Incomparably vivid . . . as enthralling a portrait of family life [in colonial New England] as we are likely to have.”—Wall Street Journal In the tradition of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s classic, A Midwife’s Tale, comes this groundbreaking narrative by one of America’s most promising colonial historians. Joshua Hempstead was a well-respected farmer and tradesman in New London, Connecticut. As his remarkable diary—kept from 1711 until 1758—reveals, he was also a slave owner who owned Adam Jackson for over thirty years. In this engrossing narrative of family life and the slave experience in the colonial North, Allegra di Bonaventura describes the complexity of this master/slave relationship and traces the intertwining stories of two families until the eve of the Revolution. Slavery is often left out of our collective memory of New England’s history, but it was hugely impactful on the central unit of colonial life: the family. In every corner, the lines between slavery and freedom were blurred as families across the social spectrum fought to survive. In this enlightening study, a new portrait of an era emerges.

New York History

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Scarlet and Black

Author : Beatrice J. Adams
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813592127
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Scarlet and Black written by Beatrice J. Adams and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black documents the history of Rutgers’s connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor accidental—nor unusual. Like most early American colleges, Rutgers depended on slaves to build its campuses and serve its students and faculty; it depended on the sale of black people to fund its very existence. Men like John Henry Livingston, (Rutgers president from 1810–1824), the Reverend Philip Milledoler, (president of Rutgers from 1824–1840), Henry Rutgers, (trustee after whom the college is named), and Theodore Frelinghuysen, (Rutgers’s seventh president), were among the most ardent anti-abolitionists in the mid-Atlantic. Scarlet and black are the colors Rutgers University uses to represent itself to the nation and world. They are the colors the athletes compete in, the graduates and administrators wear on celebratory occasions, and the colors that distinguish Rutgers from every other university in the United States. This book, however, uses these colors to signify something else: the blood that was spilled on the banks of the Raritan River by those dispossessed of their land and the bodies that labored unpaid and in bondage so that Rutgers could be built and sustained. The contributors to this volume offer this history as a usable one—not to tear down or weaken this very renowned, robust, and growing institution—but to strengthen it and help direct its course for the future. The work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History. Visit the project's website at http://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu