From Privileges to Rights : : Work and Politics in Colonial New York City / / Simon Middleton.
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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Early American Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 14 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 "Earning a beaver": Tradesmen in New Amsterdam
- Chapter 2 "Like a child in their debt and consequently their slave": The Transition to English Rule, 1664-1691
- Chapter 3 "Diverse necessaries and conveniences work found and provided": Trading in a Craft Economy, 1691-1730
- Chapter 4 "The only obstruction at this present is our want of people": The Labor Problem, 1691-1730
- Chapter 5 "So much as he should reasonably deserve to have": Tradesmen and the English Common Law
- Chapter 6 "C'mon brave boys let us be brave for liberty and law": Artisans and Politics, 1730-1763
- Chapter 7 Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments