Download or read book America s First River written by Thomas S. Wermuth and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2009-09-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the many facets of the Hudsons rich history, distinctive regional culture, and important contributions to the development of modern America. Since its inception in 1984, The Hudson River Valley Review has taken an eclectic and interdisciplinary approach to a region that has long been recognized for its role in American colonial history; its important contributions to American arts, letters, and architecture; its role in the economic development of the nation; and its significant and ongoing contributions to American culture and history. This collection of essays brings together eighteen of the best essays from the Reviews first twenty-five years of publication. From natives and newcomers to twentieth-century leaders, the authors of these essays examine the many facets of the Hudsons rich history, distinctive regional culture, and important contributions to the development of modern America.
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.
Download or read book The New York Red Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New York Red Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scottish Record Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans written by Rossiter Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contributions for the Genealogies of the First Settlers of the Ancient County of Albany from 1630 to 1800 written by Jonathan Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lamb s Biographical Dictionary of the United States written by John Howard Brown and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Appleton s Cyclopedia of American Biography written by James Grant Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Appleton s Cyclop dia of American Biography Grinnell Lockwood written by James Grant Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mid America written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore Including the Additions Made Since 1882 written by George Peabody Library and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore Including the Additions Made Since 1882 written by Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Civil List and Constitutional History of the Colony and State of New York written by Stephen C. Hutchins and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each edition contains "the names and origin of the civil divisions, and the names and dates of election or appointment of the principal state and county officers from the Revolution to the present time."
Download or read book The Register of Marriages for the Parish of Edinburgh 1595 written by Edinburgh (Parish) and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Genealogies of the State of New York written by Tunis Garret Bergen and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Factious People written by Patricia U. Bonomi and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
