From Privileges to Rights: Work and Politics in Colonial New York City

by Simon Middleton

From Privileges to Rights 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.

Tradesmen in New Amsterdam occupied a distinct social position and, with varying levels of success, secured privileges such as a reasonable reward and the exclusion of strangers from their commerce...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812239156
• ISBN13: 9780812239157
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.7"