Who Should Rule at Home? : Confronting the Elite in British New York City /

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In Who Should Rule at Home? Joyce D. Goodfriend argues that the high-ranking gentlemen who figure so prominently in most accounts of New York City's evolution from 1664, when the English captured the small Dutch outpost of New Amsterdam, to the eve of American independence in 1776 were far from...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goodfriend, Joyce D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2017]
Temas:
British > New York (State) > New York > History > 18th century.
Early American & Colonial History.
New York History.
Political Science & Political History.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA).
slavery in nyc, religious pluralism in seventeenth and eighteenth-century new york city, elites and cultural authority, dutch new york, african americans in early new york city.
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: The Pan-ethnic Elite and the Problem of Cultural Authority
  • Part One: The Indigestible Dutch
  • 1. The Crystallization of an Anti-Dutch Narrative
  • 2. From Nation to Linguistic Community
  • Part Two: Pious Commoners
  • 3. George Whitefield Awakens New York City
  • 4. Becoming Religious Consumers
  • Part Three: Defiant Dependents
  • 5. "Master of the House"?
  • 6. Attached to the Household
  • 7. Sabotaging the Civilizers
  • Conclusion: Tipping the Cultural Scales
  • Notes
  • Index

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