America's first river : the history and culture of the Hudson River Valley /
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| Imprint: | Poughkeepsie, N.Y. : Hudson River Valley Institute ; Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 2009. |
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| Description: | vii, 252 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 28 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8002655 |
Table of Contents:
- 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
