Reluctant Revolutionaries : : New York City and the Road to Independence, 1763–1776 / / Joseph S. Tiedemann.
The question of why New Yorkers were such reluctant revolutionaries has long bedeviled historians. In an innovative study of New York City between 1763 and 1776, Joseph S. Tiedemann explains how conscientiously residents labored to build a consensus under difficult circumstances. New Yorkers acted t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (356 p.) :; 3 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION The Birth Of A Debate
- Part I. The Stamp Act Crisis, I763-1766
- Chapter One. New York City On The Eve Of The First Crisis
- Chapter Two. The Onset Of Conflict
- Chapter Three. The Stamp Act
- Chapter Four. The Aftermath
- Part II. The Townshend Acts Crisis, 1766-1773
- Chapter Five. Conflict Anew
- Chapter Six. Urban Politics And The Imperial Crisis
- Chapter Seven."Liberty And Trade"
- PART III. Revolution And Independence, 1773-1??6
- Chapter Eight. The Tea Act And The Coercive Acts
- Chapter Nine. Whigs And Tories
- Chapter Ten. Empire And Liberty
- Chapter Eleven. Independence
- Epilogue.The Demise Of Colonial New York City
- Historiographical Essay
- Notes
- Index