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Unfriendly to Liberty : Loyalist Networks and the Coming of the American Revolution in New York City /

"This book examines political mobilization and the origins of loyalism in Manhattan in the decade or so prior to the American Revolution. It focuses on the emergence of the DeLancey faction in New York City politics, arguing that prerevolutionary partisanship and associationism influenced New Y...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Minty, Christopher F., 1988- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Prologue : Popular Politics and Mobilizations
  • Outwrote as well as Outvoted : The Assembly Election of 1768
  • Too Much Power over our Common People : The Assembly Election of 1769
  • The Minions of Tyranny and Despotism : The DeLanceys' Assembly
  • All the Sons of Liberty : The Rise of Alexander McDougall
  • Liberty and No Importation : Popular Politics and Associationism
  • The Mob Begin to Think and Reason : Tea and Popular Mobilizations
  • Unite or Die : Congresses, Clubs, and Conventions
  • The Din of War : Revolutionaries and Loyalists
  • Epilogue : Loyalist Americans Beyond the Revolution.