Title Who should rule at home? : confronting the elite in British New York City / Joyce D. Goodfriend

Published Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (x, 296 pages) Contents The pan-ethnic elite and the problem of cultural authority -- The indigestible Dutch -- The crystallization of an anti-Dutch narrative -- From nation to linguistic community -- Pious commoners -- George Whitefield awakens New Yorkers -- Becoming religious consumers -- Defiant dependents -- "Master of the house"? -- Attached to the household -- Sabotaging the civilizers -- Conclusion: tipping the cultural scales Summary This work argues that the high-ranking gentlemen who figure so prominently in most accounts of New York City's evolution from 1664, when the English captured the small Dutch outpost of New Amsterdam, to the eve of American independence in 1776 were far from invincible and that the degree of cultural power they held has been exaggerated Analysis slavery in nyc, religious pluralism in seventeenth and eighteenth-century new york city, elites and cultural authority, dutch new york, african americans in early new york city Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 27, 2018) Subject British -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 18th century HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) British Social classes Social conditions SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 18th century Social classes -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 18th century Subject New York (State) -- New York Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2016039365 ISBN 9781501708046 150170804X

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