Including among their number a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the founder of an ironworks, the Livingstons were a prominent family in the political, economic, and social life of colonial New York. Drawing on a rich array of sources, she shows how New York's most successful traders became gentlefolk without abandoning their entrepreneurial values, how they forged a distinct culture, and how the Revolution ultimately occasioned the rejection of elite political authority.
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Cynthia A. Kierner is Professor of History at George Mason University. She is the author of Beyond the Household: Women's Place in the Early South, 17001835, also from Cornell; Scandal at Bizarre: Rumor and Reputation in Jefferson's America; Revolutionary America; and Southern Women in Revolution, 17761800: Personal and Political Narratives.
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- The Independent Reflector: Or, Weekly Essays on Sundry Important Subjects More Particularly Adapted to the Province of New York. and others (John Harvard Library) by William Livingston on 7 pages
- American Whig: William Livingston of New York (Revised Ed.) (Outstanding Studies in Early American History) by Milton M. Klein on 7 pages
- John Jay (American Statesmen Series) by George Pellew on 6 pages
- The American Revolution: Revised Edition by Edward Countryman on 5 pages
- Colonial British America: Essays in the New History of the Early Modern Era by Jack P. Greene on 4 pages
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- William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic by Alan Taylor in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- All Our Relations: Blood Ties and Emotional Bonds among the Early South Carolina Gentry (Gender Relations in the American Experience) by Dr. Lorri Glover PhD in Back Matter
- From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers by Allan Kulikoff in Back Matter
- Provincial Lives: Middle-Class Experience in the Antebellum Middle West by Timothy R. Mahoney in Back Matter
- Land and Freedom: Rural Society, Popular Protest, and Party Politics in Antebellum New York by Reeve Huston in Back Matter
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