A Factious People: Politics and Society in Colonial New York - Softcover

Bonomi, Patricia U.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801456533 ISBN 13: 9780801456534

Verlag: Cornell University Press, 2014

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"Patricia U. Bonomi's book is not merely good. It is remarkable. Displaying a rare gift for compression as well as mastery of both original and secondary sources, Bonomi surveys the politics of colonial New York." * William and Mary Quarterly * "Patricia U. Bonomi's excursion into our eighteenth-century past gives us a good look at what we were like then and knocks off a few tightly held ideas along the way. If some of her people-the Morrises, the Livingstons, the Coldens-were living today, they would feel right at home in the shifty quagmires of contemporary politics." * New York Times * "A Factious People traces the gradual emergence of a highly developed political culture in colonial New York. Patricia U. Bonomi contends that the centrifugal nature of the colony's early development-the dispersion of settlement along the Hudson, the successive waves of culturally distinct migrants, the absence of a representative assembly until 1691-inhibited the creation of a stable polity." * American Historical Review *

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First published in 1971 and long out of print, this classic account of Colonial-era New York chronicles how the state was buffeted by political and sectional rivalries and by conflict arising from a wide diversity of ethnic and religious identities. New York's highly volatile and contentious political life, Patricia U. Bonomi shows, gave rise to a number of interest groups for whose support political leaders had to compete, resulting in new levels of democratic participation.

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• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0801456533
• ISBN 13: 9780801456534
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 362