America's First River The History and Culture of the Hudson River Valley

Name: America's First River The History and Culture of the Hudson River Valley
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ISBN: 9780615308296

ISBN-10: 0615308295

ISBN-13: 9780615308296

Edition: 2009

Authors: Thomas S. Wermuth, James M. Johnson, Christopher Pryslopski, Hudson River Valley Institute Staff

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Since its inception in 1984, The Hudson River Valley Review has taken an eclectic and interdisciplinary approach to a region that has long been recognized for its role in American colonial history; its important contributions to American arts, letters, and architecture; its role in the economic development of the nation; and its significant and ongoing contributions to American culture and history. This collection of essays brings together eighteen of the best essays from the Review’s first twenty-five years of publication. From natives and newcomers to twentieth-century leaders, the authors of these essays examine the many facets of the Hudson’s rich history, distinctive regional culture,…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 9/25/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Four Hundred Years of the Hudson River Valley


Natives & Newcomers


Dutch and Indians in the Hudson Valley: the early Period


The Algonquians in Context: the end of the spirituality of the natural World


Pro-Leislerian Farmers in early new York: A "Mad Rabble" or "Gentlemen standing Up for their Rights?"


From entrepreneurs to ornaments: the Livingston Women, 1679-1790


The American Revolution


The American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley: An overview


A suspected Loyalist in the Rural Hudson Valley: the Revolutionary War experience of Roeloff Josiah eltinge


Robert R. Livingston, Jr: the Reluctant Revolutionary


"The women in this place have risen in a mob": Women Rioters and the American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley


Social and Economic Change: 1790-1850


The Struggle to Build a Free African-American Community in Dutchess County, 1790-1820


From Merchant to Manufacturer: The Economics of Localism in Newburgh, New York, 1845-1900


The Hudson River Railroad and the Development of Irvington, New York, 1849-1860


Irish Immigrant Workers in Antebellum New York: The Experience of Domestic Servants at Van Buren's Lindenwald


Business Women in the "Land of Opportunity": First-and Second-Generation Immigrant Proprietresses in Albany, New York, 1880


Painters, Poets, and Writers


The "Prophetic Eye of Taste": Samuel F.B. Morse at Locust Grove


The Commerce of Art in the Nineteenth-Century Hudson Valley


The Moral Geography of Cooper's Miles Wallingford Novels


20th Century Leaders


Franklin D. Roosevelt, Father Divine, and the "Krum Elbow" Flurry


John Burroughs and the Hudson Valley


Contributors