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A Factious People: Politics and Society in Colonial New York
Patricia U. Bonomi
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Description for A Factious People: Politics and Society in Colonial New York
Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KBBF; HBJK; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
First published in 1971 and long out of print, this classic account of Colonial-era New York chronicles how the state was buffeted by political and sectional rivalries and by conflict arising from a wide diversity of ethnic and religious identities. New York's highly volatile and contentious political life, Patricia U. Bonomi shows, gave rise to a number of interest groups for whose support political leaders had to compete, resulting in new levels of democratic participation.
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
557g
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801456534
SKU
V9780801456534
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About Patricia U. Bonomi
Patricia U. Bonomi is Professor Emerita of History at New York University. She is the author of Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America and The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in British America.
Reviews for A Factious People: Politics and Society in Colonial New York
A Factious People traces the gradual emergence of a highly developed political culture in colonial New York. Patricia U. Bonomi contends that the centrifugal nature of the colony's early development—the dispersion of settlement along the Hudson, the successive waves of culturally distinct migrants, the absence of a representative assembly until 1691—inhibited the creation of a stable polity.
American Historical Review
Patricia U. Bonomi's book is not merely good. It is remarkable. Displaying a rare gift for compression as well as mastery of both original and secondary sources, Bonomi surveys the politics of colonial New York.
William and Mary Quarterly
Patricia U. Bonomi's excursion into our eighteenth-century past gives us a good look at what we were like then and knocks off a few tightly held ideas along the way. If some of her people—the Morrises, the Livingstons, the Coldens—were living today, they would feel right at home in the shifty quagmires of contemporary politics.
New York Times
American Historical Review
Patricia U. Bonomi's book is not merely good. It is remarkable. Displaying a rare gift for compression as well as mastery of both original and secondary sources, Bonomi surveys the politics of colonial New York.
William and Mary Quarterly
Patricia U. Bonomi's excursion into our eighteenth-century past gives us a good look at what we were like then and knocks off a few tightly held ideas along the way. If some of her people—the Morrises, the Livingstons, the Coldens—were living today, they would feel right at home in the shifty quagmires of contemporary politics.
New York Times