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Traders And Gentlefolk: The Forms Of Postmodern Poetry ISBN: 9780801426384
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
0801426383
ISBN-13
9780801426384
eBay Product ID (ePID)
515839
Product Key Features
Book Title
Traders and Gentlefolk : the Livingstons of New York, 1675-1790
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Publication Year
1992
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
91-055565
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"In this gracefully written account of four generations of the Livingston family, Kierner . . . documents the metamorphosis of a rich family into a genteel one."--American Historical Review, "Cynthia A. Kierner has produced a marvelous study of New York's Livingston family that shows them both as individuals and as representatives of an Anglo-American gentry that emerged, stabilized, and retreated between the arrival in New York of the first Robert Livingston, in 1675, and the death of his great-grandson, Robert R. Livingston, in 1790. . . . Traders and Gentlefolk is biography the way it should be-informative, illustrative, and entertaining."-New York History, "Cynthia A. Kierner has produced a marvelous study of New York's Livingston family that shows them both as individuals and as representatives of an Anglo-American gentry that emerged, stabilized, and retreated between the arrival in New York of the first Robert Livingston, in 1675, and the death of his great-grandson, Robert R. Livingston, in 1790. . . . Traders and Gentlefolk is biography the way it should be--informative, illustrative, and entertaining."--New York History, "In this gracefully written account of four generations of the Livingston family, Kierner . . . documents the metamorphosis of a rich family into a genteel one."-American Historical Review
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
974.7/02
Synopsis
Kierner vividly recreates the history of four generations of Livingstons and sheds new light on the development of both the elite ideology they represented and of the wider culture of early America., Including among their number a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the founder of an ironworks, the Livingstons were a prominent family in the political, economic, and social life of colonial New York. Drawing on a rich array of sources, Cynthia Kierner vividly recreates the history of four generations of Livingstons and sheds new light on the development of both the elite ideology they represented and of the wider culture of early America. Although New York's colonial elite have been considered self-interested political intriguers, Kierner contends that the Livingstons idealized gentility and public-spiritedness, industry and morality. She shows how New York's most successful traders became gentlefolk without abandoning their entrepreneurial values, how they forged a distinct culture, and how the Revolution ultimately occasioned the rejection of elite political authority. Traders and Gentlefolk focuses on the lives of four members of the family: Robert Livingston, a Scottish emigrant who, with his wife Alida Schuyler, attained substantial political influence and acquired Livingston Manor; their son Philip, whose outstanding commercial talents secured his descendants' financial security; Philip's son, William, an outspoken civic leader and energetic supporter of American independence; and Robert R. Livingston, a jurist and diplomat whose aristocratic temperament prevented him from playing a vital role in post-Revolutionary politics.
LC Classification Number
F122.K54 1992
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