Simon Middleton

From Privileges to Rights

Work and Politics in Colonial New York City

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Produktbeschreibung

Connects the changing fortunes of tradesmen in early New York to the emergence of a conception of subjective rights that accompanied the transition to a republican and liberal order in eighteenth-century America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 147mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780812239157
• ISBN-10: 0812239156
• Artikelnr.: 21252283

Autorenporträt

Simon Middleton teaches early American history at the University of Sheffield.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. "Earning a beaver:" tradesmen in New Amsterdam
2. "Like a child in their debt and consequently their slave:" the
transition to English rule in New York City, 1664-91.
3. "Diverse necessaries and conveniences work found and provided:" trading
in a craft economy, 1691-1730.
4. "The only obstruction at this present is our want of people:" the
problem with labor, 1691-1730
5. "For so much as he doth reasonably deserve to have:" tradesmen and the
English common law
6. "C'mon brave boys let us be brave for liberty and law:" artisans and
politics in New York City, 1730-1763.
7. Conclusion
Acknowledgments