Table of Contents

Preface: Tara Sullivan Introduction: Four Hundred Years of the Hudson River Valley Thomas S. Wermuth & James M. Johnson Natives & Newcomers Dutch and Indians in the Hudson Valley: the early Period Charles T. Gehring & William A. Starna the Algonquians in Context: the end of the spirituality of the natural World Vernon Benjamin Pro-Leislerian Farmers in early new York: A "Mad Rabble" or "Gentlemen standing Up for their Rights?" Firth Haring Fabend From entrepreneurs to ornaments: the Livingston Women, 1679-1790 Cynthia Kierner The American Revolution the American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley: An overview James M. Johnson and Thomas S. Wermuth A suspected Loyalist in the Rural Hudson Valley: the Revolutionary War experience of Roeloff Josiah eltinge Kenneth Shefsiek Robert R. Livingston, Jr: the Reluctant Revolutionary Claire Brandt "the women in this place have risen in a mob": Women Rioters and the American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley Thomas S. Wermuth Social and Economic Change: 1790-1850 The Struggle to Build a Free African-American Community in Dutchess County, 1790-1820 Michael Groth From Merchant to Manufacturer: The Economics of Localism in Newburgh, New York, 1845-1900 Mark Carnes The Hudson River Railroad and the Development of Irvington, New York, 1849-1860 Rohit T. Aggarwala Irish Immigrant Workers in Antebellum New York: The Experience of Domestic Servants at Van Buren's Lindenwald Patricia West Business Women in the "Land of Opportunity": First-and Second-Generation Immigrant Proprietresses in Albany, New York, 1880 Susan Ingalls Lewis Painters, Poets, and Writers The "Prophetic Eye of Taste": Samuel F.B. Morse at Locust Grove Robert M. Toole The Commerce of Art in the Nineteenth-Century Hudson Valley Richard C. Wiles The Moral Geography of Cooper's Miles Wallingford Novels Donald Ringe 20th Century Leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, Father Divine, and the "Krum Elbow" Flurry Thomas W. Casey John Burroughs and the Hudson Valley Alfred Marks Contributors

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