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Book Traders and Gentlefolk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cynthia A. Kierner
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-09-05
  • ISBN : 150173153X
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Traders and Gentlefolk written by Cynthia A. Kierner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, Cynthia Kierner vividly recreates the history of four generations of Livingstons and sheds new light on the development of both the elite ideology they represented and of the wider culture of early America. Although New York's colonial elite have been considered self-interested political intriguers, Kierner contends that the Livingstons idealized gentility and public-spiritedness, industry and morality. 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. Traders and Gentlefolk focuses on the lives of four members of the family: Robert Livingston, a Scottish emigrant who, with his wife Alida Schuyler, attained substantial political influence and acquired Livingston Manor; their son Philip, whose outstanding commercial talents secured his descendants' financial security; Philip's son, William, an outspoken civic leader and energetic supporter of American independence; and Robert R. Livingston, a jurist and diplomat whose aristocratic temperament prevented him from playing a vital role in post-Revolutionary politics.

Book Roots of the Republic

Download or read book Roots of the Republic written by George Dargo and published by New York : Praeger. This book was released on 1974 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Locke in America

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  • Author : Jerome Huyler
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Locke in America written by Jerome Huyler and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the link between Locke's thought and the American Founding. The author argues that previous writers have misread Locke's influence on the Founders: he portrays the philosopher as a moderate 17th-century moralist advocating an individualism that fits well with classic republicanism.

Book Ecclesiastical Records  State of New York

Download or read book Ecclesiastical Records State of New York written by New York (State). State Historian and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York

Download or read book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ecclesiastical Records of the State of New York

Download or read book Ecclesiastical Records of the State of New York written by New York (State). State Historian and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Armed Forces Officer

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  • Author : Richard Moody Swain
  • Publisher : Government Printing Office
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9780160937583
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book The Armed Forces Officer written by Richard Moody Swain and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2017 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1950, when he commissioned the first edition of The Armed Forces Officer, Secretary of Defense George C. Marshall told its author, S.L.A. Marshall, that "American military officers, of whatever service, should share common ground ethically and morally." In this new edition, the authors methodically explore that common ground, reflecting on the basics of the Profession of Arms, and the officer's special place and distinctive obligations within that profession and especially to the Constitution.

Book Dictionary Catalog of the Rare Book Division

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Rare Book Division written by New York Public Library. Rare Book Division and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference tool for Rare Books Collection.

Book Operation Iraqi Freedom

Download or read book Operation Iraqi Freedom written by Walt L. Perry and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summarizes a report on the planning and execution of operations in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM through June 2004. Recommends changes to Army plans, operational concepts, doctrine, and Title 10 functions.

Book Campaigning in America

Download or read book Campaigning in America written by Robert J. Dinkin and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1989-06-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the changing nature of vote-getting techniques during the past 250 years. Covers state and local elections and national campaigns and the different practices common to each type of election.

Book Corcoran Gallery of Art

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  • Author : Corcoran Gallery of Art
  • Publisher : Lucia Marquand
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9781555953614
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Corcoran Gallery of Art written by Corcoran Gallery of Art and published by Lucia Marquand. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.

Book The Independent Reflector  Or  Weekly Essays on Sundry Important Subjects  More Particularly Adapted to the Province of New York

Download or read book The Independent Reflector Or Weekly Essays on Sundry Important Subjects More Particularly Adapted to the Province of New York written by William Livingston and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Political Parties in American History  1789 1828

Download or read book Political Parties in American History 1789 1828 written by Winfred E. A. Bernhard and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume series of comprehensive anthologies probes the growth and evolution of American political parties through the writing of leading contemporary historians and scholars.

Book The Campaign of 1776 Around New York and Brooklyn

Download or read book The Campaign of 1776 Around New York and Brooklyn written by Henry Phelps Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: