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, 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..
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