Who Should Rule at Home?
Subtitle: Confronting the Elite in British New York City
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Mar 07, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780801451270
Description: 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 cultural authority at different times, from different groups, and in a variety of settings.
Notes: Source title: Who Should Rule at Home?: Confronting the Elite in British New York City