UID:
edocfu_9958352427202883
Format:
1 online resource (320 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780812207224
Series Statement:
Early American Studies
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Illustrations --
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Introduction --
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Chapter 1 "Earning a beaver": Tradesmen in New Amsterdam --
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Chapter 2 "Like a child in their debt and consequently their slave": The Transition to English Rule, 1664–1691 --
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Chapter 3 "Diverse necessaries and conveniences work found and provided": Trading in a Craft Economy, 1691–1730 --
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Chapter 4 "The only obstruction at this present is our want of people": The Labor Problem, 1691–1730 --
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Chapter 5 "So much as he should reasonably deserve to have": Tradesmen and the English Common Law --
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Chapter 6 "C’mon brave boys let us be brave for liberty and law": Artisans and Politics, 1730–1763 --
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Chapter 7 Conclusion --
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Notes --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812207224
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812207224
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