Chargement en cours…

A factious people : politics and society in colonial New York /

First published in 1971 and long out of print, this classic account of Colonial-era New York chronicles how the state was buffeted by political and sectional rivalries and by conflict arising from a wide diversity of ethnic and religious identities. New York's highly volatile and contentious po...

Description complète

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Bonomi, Patricia U. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Some problems in colonial New York history
  • Settlement and expansion
  • Economic interests and political contentions
  • The Morris-Cosby dispute: a political and constitutional crisis
  • James DeLancey, Anglo-American: the politics of New York at mid-century
  • New York's land system: problems and opportunities
  • Politics, the "universal topick": 1765-1770
  • Ideology and politics: a concluding note.