America's first river : the history and culture of the Hudson River Valley /
Wermuth, Thomas S.,1962-
Johnson, James M.(James Michael)
Pryslopski, Christopher.
Hudson River Valley Institute.
Poughkeepsie, N.Y. : Hudson River Valley Institute ; Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press,
c2009.
"A project of the New York Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial Commission."
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : Four hundred years of the Hudson River Valley / Thomas S. Wermuth & James M. Johnson -- Dutch and Indians in the Hudson Valley : the early period / Charles T. Gehring & William A. Starna -- The Algonquians in context : the end of the spirituality of the natural world / Vernon Benjamin -- Pro-Leislerian farmers in early New York : a "mad rabble" or "gentlemen standing up for their rights?" / Firth Haring Fabend -- From entrepreneurs to ornaments : the Livingston women, 1679-1790 / Cynthia Kierner -- The American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley : an overview / James M. Johnson and Thomas S. Wermuth -- A suspected loyalist in the rural Hudson River Valley : the Revolutionary war experience of Roeloff Josiah Eltinge / Kenneth Shefsiek -- Robert R. Livingston, Jr : the reluctant revolutionary / Claire Brandt -- "The women in this place have risen in a mob" : women rioters and the American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley / Thomas S. Wermuth -- The struggle to build a free African-American community in Dutchess County, 1790-1820 / Michael Groth -- From merchant to manufacturer : the economics of localism in Newburgh, New York, 1845-1900 / Mark Carnes -- The Hudson River railroad and the development of Irvington, New York, 1849-1860 / Rohit T. Aggarwala -- Irish immigrant workers in antebellum New York : the experience of domestic servants at Van Buren's Lindenwald / Patricia West -- Business women in the "land of opportunity" : first- and second-generation immigrant proprietresses in Albany, New York, 1880 / Susan Ingalls Lewis -- The "prophetic eye of taste" : Samuel F.B. Morse at Locust Grove / Robert M. Toole -- The commerce of art in the nineteenth-century Hudson Valley / Richard C. Wiles -- The moral geography of Cooper's Miles Wallingford novels / Donald Ringe -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, father divine, and the "Krum Elbow" flurry / Thomas W. Casey -- John Burroughs and the Hudson Valley / Alfred Marks