New York in the age of the Constitution, 1775-1800 edited by Paul A. Gilje and William Pencak

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gilje, Paul A., 1951-

Pencak, William, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New York (State)--History--1775-1865.

New York (State).

Physical Description:

203 p. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rutherford : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c1992.

Contents:

Introduction : New York in the age of the Constitution : 1775-1800 / Paul A. Gilje

Black revolt in New York City and the neutral zone : 1775-83 / Graham Russell Hodges

The common people and the Constitution : popular culture in New York City in the late eighteenth century / Paul A. Gilje

The artisan and the state in the 1790s : a comparison of New York and London / Howard B. Rock

Political "radicalism" in New York City's revolutionary and constitutional eras / Anthony Gronowicz

Liberty, jealousy, and union : the New York economy in the 1780s / Cathy Matson

Politics of the middling sort : the bourgeois radicalism of Abraham Yates, Melancton Smith, and the New York antifederalists / Saul Cornell

Education and politics in revolutionary Albany / Marta Wagner.

Notes:

"A New-York Historical Society book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0838634559

OCLC:

25095543