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

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This work 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 invincible and that the degree of cul...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Goodfriend, Joyce D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Social classes.
British.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Britanniques > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 18e siecle.
British > New York (State) > New York > History > 18th century.
New York (State) > New York.
Social classes > New York (State) > New York > History > 18th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions > 18th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The pan-ethnic elite and the problem of cultural authority
  • The indigestible Dutch
  • The crystallization of an anti-Dutch narrative
  • From nation to linguistic community
  • Pious commoners
  • George Whitefield awakens New Yorkers
  • Becoming religious consumers
  • Defiant dependents
  • "Master of the house"?
  • Attached to the household
  • Sabotaging the civilizers
  • Conclusion: tipping the cultural scales.

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