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Reluctant Revolutionaries: New York City and the Road to Independence, 1763–1776

Reluctant Revolutionaries: New York City and the Road to Independence, 1763–1776


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The question of why New Yorkers were such reluctant revolutionaries has long bedeviled historians. In an innovative study of New York City between 1763 and 1776, Joseph S. Tiedemann explains how conscientiously residents labored to build a consensus under difficult circumstances. New Yorkers acted the way they did not because they were mostly loyalist or because a few patrician conservatives were able to stem the tide of revolution but because the population of their city was so heterogeneous that consensus was not easily achieved.Differences within the city's pluralistic population slowed the process of hammering out a course of action acceptable to the large majority. The consensus that finally emerged had to be cautious rather than militant in order to unite as many people as possible behind the revolutionary banner. Ultimately, the time it took was far less significant, Tiedemann notes, than the fact that New York proceeded to declare independence, and went on to become a pivotal state in the new nation. In framing his argument, Tiedemann explains the limitations of interpretations offered by both progressive, New Left, and consensus historians. Citing the work of scholars as diverse as Walter Laqueur, Theda Skocpol, and Louis Kreisberg, Tiedemann pays close attention to the dynamics of British colonial rule and its impact on New York.

About the Author :
Joseph S. Tiedemann is Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University.

Review :
A compelling narrative of the coming of the Revolution and the ways in which imperial politics played out in New York. - Simon P. Newman (Journal of American History) A rich political narrative of the Revolutionary movement, carefully researched and skillfully told.... Joseph Tiedemann has provided an excellent survey of fifteen years of New York politics before Independence. - Donald F. M. Gerardi (William and Mary Quarterly) A carefully constructed book based on extensive research in both the published writings and private correspondence of the period. Tiedemann, who is known for his work on Queens County, New York, during the revolutionary era, reconstructs the course of events form 1763 to 1776 in meticulous detail, weaving developments on both sides of the Atlantic into a smoothly written narrative.... A comprehensive and well-documented narrative of resistance and revolution in New York. - Joyce D. Goodfriend (Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography) This book is a good source of data on New York City.... an excellent description of the city's layout, churches, and government makes the book a helpful reference source. (American Historical Review)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780801432378
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: New York City and the Road to Independence, 1763–1776
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0801432375
  • Publisher Date: 20 Feb 1997
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Weight: 907 gr


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