Who Should Rule at Home? : : Confronting the Elite in British New York City / / Joyce D. Goodfriend.
In Who Should Rule at Home? Joyce D. Goodfriend argues that the high-ranking gentlemen who figure so prominently in most accounts of New York City’s evolution from 1664, when the English captured the small Dutch outpost of New Amsterdam, to the eve of American independence in 1776 were far from invi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Pan-ethnic Elite and the Problem of Cultural Authority
- Part One: The Indigestible Dutch
- 1. The Crystallization of an Anti-Dutch Narrative
- 2. From Nation to Linguistic Community
- Part Two: Pious Commoners
- 3. George Whitefield Awakens New York City
- 4. Becoming Religious Consumers
- Part Three: Defiant Dependents
- 5. “Master of the House”?
- 6. Attached to the Household
- 7. Sabotaging the Civilizers
- Conclusion: Tipping the Cultural Scales
- Notes
- Index