From Privileges to Rights : Work and Politics in Colonial New York City

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From Privileges to Rights 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.Tradesmen in New Amsterdam occupied a distinct social position...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Middleton, Simon
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Working class.
Entrepreneurship.
Artisans.
Travailleurs > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
Entrepreneuriat > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
Artisans > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
Working class > New York (State) > New York > History.
Entrepreneurship > New York (State) > New York > History.
Artisans > New York (State) > New York > History.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (N.Y.) > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Periode coloniale)
New York (N.Y.) > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1 "Earning a beaver": Tradesmen in New Amsterdam; 2 "Like a child in their debt and consequently their slave": The Transition to English Rule, 1664-1691; 3 "Diverse necessaries and conveniences work found and provided": Trading in a Craft Economy, 1691-1730; 4 "The only obstruction at this present is our want of people": The Labor Problem, 1691-1730; 5 "So much as he should reasonably deserve to have": Tradesmen and the English Common Law; 6 "C'mon brave boys let us be brave for liberty and law": Artisans and Politics, 1730-1763.
  • 7 ConclusionNotes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z; Acknowledgments.

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