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Reluctant Revolutionaries

Joseph S. Tiedemann
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      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.Differences within the city's pluralistic population slowed the process of hammering out a course of action acceptable to the large majority. The consensus that finally emerged had to be cautious rather than militant in order to unite as many people as possible behind the revolutionary banner. Ultimately, the time it took was far less significant, Tiedemann notes, than the fact that New York proceeded to declare independence, and went on to become a pivotal state in the new nation. In framing his argument, Tiedemann explains the limitations of interpretations offered by both progressive, New Left, and consensus historians. Citing the work of scholars as diverse as Walter Laqueur, Theda Skocpol, and Louis Kreisberg, Tiedemann pays close attention to the dynamics of British colonial rule and its impact on New York.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Joseph S. Tiedemann EAN: 9780801474958 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cornell University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2008-08-21 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799, c 1765 to 1783 (American Revolutionary period), c 1783 to c 1800 (American Federalist era), History of the Americas, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), Specific wars and campaigns, Local history

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      Joseph S. Tiedemann is Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University.
      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.Differences within the city's pluralistic population slowed the process of hammering out a course of action acceptable to the large majority. The consensus that finally emerged had to be cautious rather than militant in order to unite as many people as possible behind the revolutionary banner. Ultimately, the time it took was far less significant, Tiedemann notes, than the fact that New York proceeded to declare independence, and went on to become a pivotal state in the new nation. In framing his argument, Tiedemann explains the limitations of interpretations offered by both progressive, New Left, and consensus historians. Citing the work of scholars as diverse as Walter Laqueur, Theda Skocpol, and Louis Kreisberg, Tiedemann pays close attention to the dynamics of British colonial rule and its impact on New York.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Joseph S. Tiedemann EAN: 9780801474958 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cornell University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2008-08-21 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      United States of America, USA, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799, c 1765 to 1783 (American Revolutionary period), c 1783 to c 1800 (American Federalist era), History of the Americas, Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare), Specific wars and campaigns, Local history

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      Joseph S. Tiedemann is Professor of History at Loyola Marymount University.

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