Author: William LivingstonPublisher: Belknap Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
No detailed description available for "The Independent Reflector".
The Independent Reflector
Author: William LivingstonPublisher: Belknap Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
No detailed description available for "The Independent Reflector".
The Independent Reflector: Or, Weekly Essays on Sundry Important Subjects. More Particularly Adapted to the Province of New York ...
Author: William LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
To this paper, which was edited by William Livingston, many noted men of the day contributed. Livingston himself wrote a series of letters in which he vigorously opposed the establishment of an American Episcopate, and the incorporation of an Episcopal college (now Columbia). Among other contributes were Aaron Burr, John M. Scott, William Alexander (afterwards known as Lord Stirling), and William Smith. Its attacks on men in power by members of a literary society in New York City ultimately suppressed the paper.
The Independent Reflector, Or, Weekly Essays on Sundry Important Subjects, More Particularly Adapted to the Province of New-York
Author: William LivingstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
The Religious Roots of the First Amendment
Author: Nicholas P. MillerPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199858365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Arguing that commitments by certain dissenting Protestants to the right of private judgment in matters of Biblical interpretation helped promote religious liberty and religious disestablishment in the early modern West, this text describes a continuous strand of this religious thought - as well as the thinkers who spread it.
The Idea of a Free Press
Author: David A. CopelandPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810123290
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Spanning nearly four centuries in Britain and America, Copeland's book reveals how the tension between government control and the right to debate public affairs openly ultimately led to the idea of a free press.
Crossroads of Empire
Author: Ned C. LandsmanPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801899702
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This work examines colonial New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania as central to both warfare and the emerging British-Atlantic world of culture and trade. In this probing history, Ned C. Landsman demonstrates how the Middle Colonies came to function as a distinct region. He argues that while each territory possessed varying social, religious, and political cultures, the collective lands of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania were unified in their particular history and place in the imperial and Atlantic worlds. Landsman shows that the societal cohesiveness of the three colonies originated in the commercial and military rivalries among Native nations and developed further with the competing involvement of the European powers. They eventually emerged as the focal point in the contest for dominion over North America. In relating this progression, Landsman discusses various factors in the region’s development, including the Enlightenment, evangelical religion, factional politics, religious and ethnic diversity, and distinct systems of Protestant pluralism. Ultimately, he argues, it was within the Middle Colonies that the question was first posed, What is the American?
Who Should Rule at Home?
Author: Joyce D. GoodfriendPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501708031
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
In Who Should Rule at Home? Joyce D. Goodfriend argues that the high-ranking gentlemen who figure so prominently in most accounts of New York City's evolution from 1664, when the English captured the small Dutch outpost of New Amsterdam, to the eve of American independence in 1776 were far from invincible and that the degree of cultural power they held has been exaggerated. The urban elite experienced challenges to its cultural authority at different times, from different groups, and in a variety of settings. Goodfriend illuminates the conflicts that pitted the privileged few against the socially anonymous many who mobilized their modest resources to creatively resist domination. Critics of orthodox religious practice took to heart the message of spiritual rebirth brought to New York City by the famed evangelist George Whitefield and were empowered to make independent religious choices. Wives deserted husbands and took charge of their own futures. Indentured servants complained or simply ran away. Enslaved women and men carved out spaces where they could control their own lives and salvage their dignity. Impoverished individuals, including prostitutes, chose not to bow to the dictates of the elite, even though it meant being cut off from the sources of charity. Among those who confronted the elite were descendants of the early Dutch settlers; by clinging to their native language and traditional faith they preserved a crucial sense of autonomy.
Divided Loyalties
Author: Richard M. KetchumPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805061208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
"From the outset, the Revolution was a civil war, cruelly dividing families and friends. The dense, compact character of 1760s New York City - a maritime community of about 18,000 souls - brought those divisions into stark relief. As Ketchum shows us, it was, then as now, a city whose lifeblood was commerce and whose consuming interest was money. However, money was to be made - and its interests defended - in different ways. The DeLanceys were Anglican, well-connected, urban merchants, and they threw in their lot with the crown. Their long-time rivals, the Presbyterian Livingstons, were landed Hudson River gentry and patriots. Both felt the pinch of London's new taxes. But beyond pecuniary matters, both had deeply held convictions about good and just government and proper relations with the other country. The irony was that the allegiance of loyalist and patriot alike was not to the king or to England, but to what they saw as their own country - America."--BOOK JACKET.
Constitutional History of the American Revolution
Author: John Phillip ReidPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299108748
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
John Phillip Reid addresses the central constitutional issues that divided the American colonists from their English legislators: the authority to tax, the authority to legislate, the security of rights, the nature of law, the foundation of constitutional government in custom and contractarian theory, and the search for a constitutional settlement.
A Factious People
Author: Patricia U. BonomiPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801455332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
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 several interest groups for whose support political leaders had to compete, resulting in new levels of democratic participation.