Author: Cuyler Reynolds
Publisher:
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Category : Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 662

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Author: Warren Roberts
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 143843331X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363

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A journey into Albany’s historic past and the city’s role in three pivotal historical narratives: the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the construction of the Erie Canal.

Author: C. Carl Pegels
Publisher: IAP
ISBN: 1617355011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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The book presents the stories of the more successful Dutch American entrepreneurs, active in the United States, with some going back as far as 400 years. The majority of the entrepreneurs covered in the book were active during the past 150 years. Each of the individuals covered represent an enterprise that was well known during its respective era. In some of the cases the individuals were better known than the enterprises they represented, and some became historic figures. Some of the more famous Dutch American entrepreneurs are Cornelius Vanderbilt, and his son William Vanderbilt, transportation entrepreneurs in the nineteenth century. Also famous during the early nineteenth century was DeWitt Clinton, the driving force behind the building of the Erie Canal. During the twentieth century, there were such famous Dutch American entrepreneurs as Cecil B. DeMille, Darryl Zanuck, and others in the entertainment industry. The most successful entrepreneurs, still alive today, are the billionaire businessmen, the Koch brothers, who own the multibillion dollar Koch Industries, an oil and chemical industry firm. The book’s audience consists of academics, the public, and specifically the Dutch American public, numbering from 6 to 10 million people. The book is also an important source book and reader for college courses in Entrepreneurship, American History, Culture, Society and Economy.

Author: Charles W. McCurdy
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860875
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 429

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A compelling blend of legal and political history, this book chronicles the largest tenant rebellion in U.S. history. From its beginning in the rural villages of eastern New York in 1839 until its collapse in 1865, the Anti-Rent movement impelled the state's governors, legislators, judges, and journalists, as well as delegates to New York's bellwether constitutional convention of 1846, to wrestle with two difficult problems of social policy. One was how to put down violent tenant resistance to the enforcement of landlord property and contract rights. The second was how to abolish the archaic form of land tenure at the root of the rent strike. Charles McCurdy considers the public debate on these questions from a fresh perspective. Instead of treating law and politics as dependent variables--as mirrors of social interests or accelerators of social change--he highlights the manifold ways in which law and politics shaped both the pattern of Anti-Rent violence and the drive for land reform. In the process, he provides a major reinterpretation of the ideas and institutions that diminished the promise of American democracy in the supposed "golden age" of American law and politics.

Author: Stephen Van Rensselaer
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This collection contains an account book kept by the clerk of Stephen Van Rensselaer III in Albany, N.Y. from 1810 to 1864. It contains record of payments for leased land by the descendents of Jacob Schermerhorn (1741-1795), Barney and Cornelius J. Payments were made with cash, goods, and produce harvested from the land they leased, including fowls, rye, turkeys, wheat, and wood.

Author: New York State Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 960

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Vols. for 19 -19 include reports of Educational Extension Division and School Libraries Division.

Author: Diana S. Waite
Publisher: Mount Ida Press
ISBN: 9780962536816
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Author: Peter M. Kenny
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870998358
Category : Furniture
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Although his brief but productive career as a cabinetmaker in New York lasted a mere sixteen years, the French-born maitre ebeniste Charles-Honore Lannuier (1779-1819) was a leading figure in the development of a distinctive and highly refined style of furniture in the Late Federal period. A contemporary of the renowned master Duncan Phyfe, Lannuier, like him, made fashionable gilded card tables, marble-topped pier tables, bedsteads, and seating furniture for wealthy clients numbering among the mercantile and social elite of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond, and Savannah. This volume, which complements the exhibition "Honore Lannuier, Parisian Cabinetmaker in Federal New York" held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in spring 1998, represents the most complete study of Lannuier's life and work published to date.

Author: Shaun J. McLaughlin
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614238383
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231

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During the Patriot War, fought between 1837-1842, hundreds of men on both sides of the New York-Canadian border took up arms to free Canada from supposed British tyranny. Infused with the Spirit of '76 and inspired by the recent Texas revolution, they fought bravely in battles, skirmishes and attacks, including November's Battle of the Windmill. Many sacrificed their lives, while others became slave laborers of the British in Tasmania. Among their leaders was Bill Johnston, a Thousand Islands smuggler, river pirate and War-of-1812 privateer, whose cunning was so feared by the British that they called out their military whenever his name made the newspapers. This book recalls the stories, triumphs and sacrifices of the brave on both sides of the border.

Author: Mary Raddant Tomlan
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN: 9780870237683
Category : Albany (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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