Reluctant Revolutionaries: New York City and the Road to Independence, 1763–1776 - Hardcover

Tiedemann, Joseph S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801432375 ISBN 13: 9780801432378

Verlag: Cornell University Press, 1997

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"This book is a good source of data on New York City.... an excellent description of the city's layout, churches, and government makes the book a helpful reference source." * American Historical Review * "The most extensively researched and expertly written history of this period. It supersedes all previous works on the subject. This is the product of a mature scholar thoroughly familiar with the sources and skilled in presenting his findings." -- Milton M. Klein, University of Tennessee "A carefully constructed book based on extensive research in both the published writings and private correspondence of the period. Tiedemann, who is known for his work on Queens County, New York, during the revolutionary era, reconstructs the course of events form 1763 to 1776 in meticulous detail, weaving developments on both sides of the Atlantic into a smoothly written narrative.... A comprehensive and well-documented narrative of resistance and revolution in New York." -- Joyce D. Goodfriend * Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography * "A rich political narrative of the Revolutionary movement, carefully researched and skillfully told.... Joseph Tiedemann has provided an excellent survey of fifteen years of New York politics before Independence." -- Donald F. M. Gerardi * William and Mary Quarterly * "A compelling narrative of the coming of the Revolution and the ways in which imperial politics played out in New York." -- Simon P. Newman * Journal of American History *

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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.

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• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0801432375
• ISBN 13: 9780801432378
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 356