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

by Joseph S. Tiedemann. 342 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Joseph S. Tiedemann

Publisher:

   Cornell University Press

Place of Publication:

  Ithaca, NY  

Publication Year:

  1997
Subjects:   New York (N.Y.)--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, New York (N.Y.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Table of contents
Contents
Maps ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: The Birth of a Debate 1
I THE STAMP ACT CRISIS, 1763-1766
1 New York City on the Eve of the First Crisis 13
2 The Onset of Conflict 42
3 The Stamp Act 62
4 The Aftermath 83
II THE TOWNSHEND ACTS CRISIS, 1766-1773
5 Conflict Anew 105
6 Urban Politics and the Imperial Crisis 125
7 "Liberty and Trade" 150
III REVOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE, 1773-1776
8 The Tea Act and the Coercive Acts 175
9 Whigs and Tories 198
10 Empire and Liberty 220
11 Independence 243
Epilogue: The Demise of Colonial New York City 254
Historiographical Essay 259
Notes 269
Index 333
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