Author: William Livingston
Publisher: Belknap Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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No detailed description available for "The Independent Reflector".

Author: William Livingston
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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To this paper, which was edited by William Livingston, many noted men of the day contributed. Livingston himself wrote a series of letters in which he vigorously opposed the establishment of an American Episcopate, and the incorporation of an Episcopal college (now Columbia). Among other contributes were Aaron Burr, John M. Scott, William Alexander (afterwards known as Lord Stirling), and William Smith. Its attacks on men in power by members of a literary society in New York City ultimately suppressed the paper.

Author: William Livingston
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Languages : en
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Author: Luther Samuel Livingston
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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Author: Luther Samuel Livingston
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 598

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Author: Luther Samuel Livingston
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 598

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Author: Simon Middleton
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081220722X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 515

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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 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.

Author: Gabrielle (Ernits) Malikoff
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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Author: Derek Jones
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136798633
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 6858

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First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Vaughn Scribner
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479809454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363

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Examines the critical role of urban taverns in the social and political life of colonial and revolutionary America From exclusive “city taverns” to seedy “disorderly houses,” urban taverns were wholly engrained in the diverse web of British American life. By the mid-eighteenth century, urban taverns emerged as the most popular, numerous, and accessible public spaces in British America. These shared spaces, which hosted individuals from a broad swath of socioeconomic backgrounds, eliminated the notion of “civilized” and “wild” individuals, and dismayed the elite colonists who hoped to impose a British-style social order upon their local community. More importantly, urban taverns served as critical arenas through which diverse colonists engaged in an ongoing act of societal negotiation. Inn Civility exhibits how colonists’ struggles to emulate their British homeland ultimately impelled the creation of an American republic. This unique insight demonstrates the messy, often contradictory nature of British American society building. In striving to create a monarchical society based upon tenets of civility, order, and liberty, colonists inadvertently created a political society that the founders would rely upon for their visions of a republican America. The elitist colonists’ futile efforts at realizing a civil society are crucial for understanding America’s controversial beginnings and the fitful development of American republicanism.