Gotham_ A History of New York City to 1898 - Edwin G. Burrows [1201]
PART TWO BRITISH NEW YORK (1664-1783)
6. Empire and Oligarchy The persistence of Dutch law and folkways under the duke of York's lenient proprietorship. Slow economic and demographicexpansion. The Dutch briefly recapture the city.
7. Jacob Leisler's Rebellion Taut times in the 1680s. Protestants and Catholics, English and Dutch, new grandees and disaffected commoners. Leisler's uprising as Dutch last stand and “people's Revolution.”
8. Heats and Animosityes The English anglicize New York: church and state, docks and lots, scavengers and constables, Stadthuis to City Hall. Privateering, piracy, and Captain Kidd. Domestic politics and international conflict through Queen Anne's War (1715).
9. In the Kingdom of Sugar The West Indian connection: white gold, black slaves, yellow fever. The town that trade built: shipyards and refineries, barristers and Jack Tars. Germans and Irish, Catholics and Jews.
10. One Body Corporate and Politic? A new charter establishes the colonialcity as self-governing corporation. Rules and regulations for dealing withdisobedient servants, rebellious slaves, the disorderly poor.
11. Recession, Revival, and Rebellion Trade slump. The Zenger affair, religiousrevivals, and the “Negro Conspiracy” of 1741.
12. War and Wealth Imperial wars in the 1740s and 1750s as route to riches: provisioners and privateers. Empire and industry. Refined patrician precincts, artisanal wards, municipal improvements.
13. Crises Peace and depression. Hardship after 1763. The British crackdown and local resistance. The Sons of Liberty and Stamp Act rioters. A temporary victory.
14. The Demon of Discord Renewed imperial extractions. Revived opposition to Great Britian, 1766-1775. Popular politics and religion. Whigs and Tories.
15. Revolution Radicalpatriots take control of'the city, 1775-1776. The Battle of Long Island. New York falls to the British.
16. The Gibraltar of North America The military occupation of New York City, 1776-1783. Washington's triumphal return.
PART THREE MERCANTILE TOWN (1783-1843)
17. Phoenix Rebuilding the war-ravaged city. The radical whigs take power. New New Yorkers. The Empress of China.
18. The Revolution Settlement Hamilton negotiates a rapprochement betweenradical and conservative whigs, securing the revolution. Daughters of Liberty, the reconstruction of slavery.
19. The Grand Federal Procession Adoption and ratification of the Constitution. The great parade of July 1788. Washington's Inauguration in 1789.
20. Capital City New York as seat of the national government, 1789-1790. Hamilton, Duer, and the “moneyed men.” From capital city to city of capital. First banks, first stock market, first Wall Street crash.
21. Revolutions Foreign and Domestic Impact of the French Revolution. Party struggles in the 1790s. The election of 1800. Prying open the municipalfranchise. The Burr-Hamilton duel.
22. Queen of Commerce, Jack of All Trades The city's explosive growth in the 1790s as local merchants take advantage of war in Europe, westwardexpansion, and the demand for southern cotton. Transformation of the crafts, the end of slavery.
23. The Road to City Hall Demise of municipal corporation, rise of citygovernment. Attending to civic crises: water, fever, garbage, fire, poverty, crime. A new City Hall.
24. Philosophes and Philanthropists Upper-class life styles in the 1790s and early 1800s. Learned men and cultivated women. Republican benevolence: charity, education, public health, religious instruction.
25. From Crowd to Class Artisan communities. Turmoil in the trades. Infidels, evangelicals, and the advent of Tom Paine. Africans and Irishtown. Charlotte Temple and Mother Carey's bawdyhouse.
26. War and Peace The drift toward a second war with Britain, 1807-1812. Embargo and impressment, destitute Tars and work-relief. Battles over foreignpolicy. Washington Irving and Diedrich Knickerbocker. Thegridding of New York. War: 1812-1815.
27. The Canal Era Postwar doldrums give way to the 1820s boom. Erie Canal, steamboat,