Who Should Rule at Home?: Confronting the Elite in British New York City

by Joyce D. Goodfriend

Book Overview

In Who Should Rule at Home? Joyce D. Goodfriend 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. The urban elite experienced challenges to its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501764578
• ISBN13: 9781501764578
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher