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The pirate's wife : the remarkable true story of Sarah Kidd
In work of narrative nonfiction filled with romance and high seas adventure, a historian and journalist charts the life of Sarah Kidd, who secretly aided and abetted her infamous husband, pirate Captain Kidd, from within the strictures of polite society in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New York.
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Unfriendly to Liberty
In Unfriendly to
Liberty , Christopher F. Minty explores the
origins of loyalism in New York City between 1768 and 1776, and
revises our understanding of the coming of the American
Revolution.
Through detailed analyses of those who became loyalists, Minty
argues that would-be loyalists came together long before Lexington
and Concord to form an organized, politically motivated, and
inclusive political group that was centered around the DeLancey
faction. Following the DeLanceys' election to the New York Assembly
in 1768, these men, elite and nonelite, championed an inclusive
political economy that advanced the public good, and they strongly
protested Parliament's reorientation of the British Empire.
For New York loyalists, it was local politics, factions,
institutions, and behaviors that governed their political
activities in the build up to the American Revolution. By focusing
on political culture, organization, and patterns of allegiance,
Unfriendly to Liberty shows how the contending allegiances
of loyalists and patriots were all but locked in place by 1775 when
British troops marched out of Boston to seize caches of weapons in
neighboring villages.
Indeed, local political alignments that were formed in the
imperial crises of the 1760s and 1770s provided a critical platform
for the divide between loyalists and patriots in New York City.
Political and social disputes coming out of the Seven Years' War,
more than republican radicalization in the 1770s, forged the united
force that would make New York City a center of loyalism throughout
the American Revolution.
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The European invasion of North America : colonial conflict along the Hudson-Champlain corridor, 1609-1760
\"This comprehensive resource follows the pivotal and often overlooked efforts of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Dutch, the French, and the English colonies to control the strategic waterways of the Hudson-Champlain corridor from their discovery to the fall of New France\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Defying Empire
This enthralling book is the first to uncover the story of New York City merchants who engaged in forbidden trade with the enemy before and during the Seven Years' War (also known as the French and Indian War). Ignoring British prohibitions designed to end North America's wartime trade with the French, New York's merchant elite conducted a thriving business in the French West Indies, insisting that their behavior was protected by long practice and British commercial law. But the government in London viewed it as treachery, and its subsequent efforts to discipline North American commerce inflamed the colonists.
Through fast-moving events and unforgettable characters, historian Thomas M. Truxes brings eighteenth-century New York and the Atlantic world to life. There are spies, street riots, exotic settings, informers, courtroom dramas, interdictions on the high seas, ruthless businessmen, political intrigues, and more. The author traces each phase of the city's trade with the enemy and details the frustrations that affected both British officials and independent-minded New Yorkers. The first book to focus on New York City during the Seven Years' War,Defying Empirereveals the important role the city played in hastening the colonies' march toward revolution.
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Black and White Manhattan
Race first emerged as an important ingredient of New York City's melting pot when it was known as New Amsterdam and was a fledgling colonial outpost on the North American frontier. This book details the arrival of the first immigrants, including African slaves, and traces encounters between the town's inhabitants of African, European, and Native American descent, showing how racial domination became key to the building of the settler colony at the tip of Manhattan Island. During the colonial era, the art of governing the city's diverse and factious population, the book reveals, involved the subordination of confessional, linguistic, and social antagonisms to binary racial difference. Everyday formations of race are investigated — in slave owning households, on the colonial city's streets, at its docks, taverns, and marketplaces, and in the adjacent farming districts. Even though the northern colonial port town afforded a space for black resistance, that setting did not, this book argues, effectively undermine the city's institution of black slavery. This history of New York City demonstrates that the process of racial formation and the mechanisms of racial domination were central to the northern colonial experience and to the founding of the United States.
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From Privileges to Rights
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 and, with varying levels of success, secured privileges such as a reasonable reward and the exclusion of strangers from their commerce. The struggle to maintain these privileges figured in the transition to English rule as well as Leisler's Rebellion. Using hitherto unexamined records from the New York City Mayor's Court, Simon Middleton also demonstrates that, rather than merely mastering skilled crafts in workshops, artisans participated in whatever enterprises and markets promised profits with a minimum of risk. Bakers, butchers, and carpenters competed in a bustling urban economy knit together by credit that connected their fortunes to the Atlantic trade.In the early eighteenth century, political and legal changes diminished earlier social distinctions and the grounds for privileges, while an increasing reliance on slave labor stigmatized menial toil. When an economic and a constitutional crisis prompted the importation of radical English republican ideas, artisans were recast artisans as virtuous male property owners whose consent was essential for legitimate government. In this way, an artisanal subject emerged that provided a constituency for the development of a populist and egalitarian republican political culture in New York City.
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New York City Cartmen, 1667-1850
The cartmen-unskilled workers who hauled goods on one
horsecarts-were perhaps the most important labor group in early
American cities. The forerunners of the Teamsters Union, these
white-frocked laborers moved almost all of the nation's
possessions, touching the lives of virtually every American. New
York City Cartmen, 1667-1850 tells the story of this vital group of
laborers. Besides documenting the cartmen's history, the book also
demonstrates the tremendous impact of government intervention into
the American economy via the creation of labor laws. The cartmen
possessed a hard-nosed political awareness, and because they
transported essential goods, they achieved a status in New York
City far above their skills or financial worth. Civic support and
discrimination helped the cartmen create a community all their own.
The cartmen's culture and their relationship with New York's
municipal government are the direct ancestors of the city's fabled
taxicab drivers. But this book is about the city itself. It is a
stirring street-level account of the growth of New York, growth
made possible by the efforts of the cartmen and other unskilled
laborers. Containing 23 black-and-white illustrations, New York
City Cartmen is informative reading for social, urban, and labor
historians.
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New York City, 1664-1710 : conquest and change
This book explores the complex social and economic life of a major colonial city. New York City was a vital part of the middle colonies and may hold the key to the origins of political democracy in America. Family histories, public records of births, marriages and assessments, and records of business transactions and poll lists are among the rich sources Thomas J. Archdeacon uses to determine the impact of the English conquest on the city of New York.
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New York City, 1664-1710
Integrating sophisticated demographic techniques with clearly written narrative, this pioneering book (first published in 1976) explores the complex social and economic life of a major colonial city. New York City was a vital part of the middle colonies and may hold the key to the origins of political democracy in America. Family histories, public records of births, marriages, and assessments, and records of business transactions and poll lists are among the rich sources Thomas J. Archdeacon uses to determine the impact of the English conquest on the city of New York. Among his concerns are the changing relationships between the Dutch and the English, the distribution of wealth and the role of commerce in the city, and the part played by ethnic and religious heritage in provincial politics.
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