TY  - GEN
T1  - Reluctant revolutionaries : New York City and the road to independence, 1763-1776
A1  - Tiedemann, Joseph S.
LA  - English
PP  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
YR  - 1997
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1037272823
AB  - 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.
AB  - In framing his argument, Tiedemann explains the limitations of interpretations offered by progressive, New Left, and consensus historians. Citing the works of scholars as diverse as Walter Laqueur, Theda Skocpol, and Louis Kriesberg, Tiedemann pays close attention to the dynamics of British colonial rule and its impact on New York.
OP  - 342
CN  - F128.4 .T54 1997eb
SN  - 9781501717536
SN  - 1501717537
SN  - 0801432375
SN  - 9780801432378
KW  - New York (N.Y.) : History : Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
KW  - New York (N.Y.) : History : Revolution, 1775-1783.
KW  - New York (N.Y.) : Histoire : 1775-1783 (Révolution)
KW  - New York (N.Y.) : Histoire : ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
KW  - HISTORY : United States : State & Local : General.
KW  - HISTORY : United States : State & Local : Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
KW  - HISTORY : United States : State & Local : New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
KW  - HISTORY : United States : Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
KW  - New York (State) : New York
KW  - United States
KW  - New York (N.Y.)
KW  - USA : Unabhängigkeitskrieg.
KW  - 1600-1783
KW  - History
ER  -