From privileges to rights : work and politics in colonial New York City /
Connects the changing fortunes of tradesmen in early New York to the emergence of a conception of subjective rights that accompanied the transition to a republican and liberal order in eighteenth-century America.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2006.
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Colección: | Early American studies.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 "Earning a beaver": Tradesmen in New Amsterdam
- Chapter 2 "Like a child in their debt and consequently their slave": The Transition to English Rule, 1664-1691
- Chapter 3 "Diverse necessaries and conveniences work found and provided": Trading in a Craft Economy, 1691-1730
- Chapter 4 "The only obstruction at this present is our want of people": The Labor Problem, 1691-1730
- Chapter 5 "So much as he should reasonably deserve to have": Tradesmen and the English Common Law
- Chapter 6 "C'mon brave boys let us be brave for liberty and law": Artisans and Politics, 1730-1763
- Chapter 7 Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments.