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Reluctant Revolutionaries : New York City and the Road to Independence, 1763–1776 / Joseph S. Tiedemann.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (356 p.) : 3 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501717536
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 974.7/107
LOC classification:
  • F128.4 .T54 1997
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 the way they did not because they were mostly loyalist or because a few patrician conservatives were able to stem the tide of revolution but because the population of their city was so heterogeneous that consensus was not easily achieved.Differences within the city's pluralistic population slowed the process of hammering out a course of action acceptable to the large majority. The consensus that finally emerged had to be cautious rather than militant in order to unite as many people as possible behind the revolutionary banner. Ultimately, the time it took was far less significant, Tiedemann notes, than the fact that New York proceeded to declare independence, and went on to become a pivotal state in the new nation. In framing his argument, Tiedemann explains the limitations of interpretations offered by both progressive, New Left, and consensus historians. Citing the work of scholars as diverse as Walter Laqueur, Theda Skocpol, and Louis Kreisberg, Tiedemann pays close attention to the dynamics of British colonial rule and its impact on New York.
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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

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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 the way they did not because they were mostly loyalist or because a few patrician conservatives were able to stem the tide of revolution but because the population of their city was so heterogeneous that consensus was not easily achieved.Differences within the city's pluralistic population slowed the process of hammering out a course of action acceptable to the large majority. The consensus that finally emerged had to be cautious rather than militant in order to unite as many people as possible behind the revolutionary banner. Ultimately, the time it took was far less significant, Tiedemann notes, than the fact that New York proceeded to declare independence, and went on to become a pivotal state in the new nation. In framing his argument, Tiedemann explains the limitations of interpretations offered by both progressive, New Left, and consensus historians. Citing the work of scholars as diverse as Walter Laqueur, Theda Skocpol, and Louis Kreisberg, Tiedemann pays close attention to the dynamics of British colonial rule and its impact on New York.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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