Key to the northern country

Key to the northern country the Hudson River Valley in the American Revolution / [electronic resource] : Hudson River Valley in the American Revolution edited by James M. Johnson, Christopher Pryslopski, and Andrew Villani. - Albany : State University of New York Press, Albany : Excelsior Editions, 2013. - xix, 307 p. : ill. - SUNY series, an American region : studies in the Hudson Valley . - SUNY series, an American region. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview: the American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley / Thomas S. Wermuth and James M. Johnson -- Politics and loyalties -- A suspected loyalist in the rural Hudson River Valley: the Revolutionary War experience of Roeloff Josiah Eltinge / Kenneth Shefsiek -- "Can you on such principles think of quitting a country?" Family, faith, law, property, and the loyalists of the Hudson Valley during the American Revolution / Michael Diaz -- New York's committees in the American Revolution / Colin Williams -- Robert R. Livingston, Jr.: the reluctant revolutionary / Clare Brandt -- Skinners: patriot "friends" or loyalist "foes"? / Lincoln Diamant -- The central Hudson Valley and the American Revolution / Thomas S. Wermuth -- Suffrage and society -- Open to all parties: Alexander and James Robertson, Albany printers, 1771-1777 / Denis P. Brennan -- Taxation and suffrage in revolutionary New York / Jonathan Clark -- The right to choose: suffrage during the Revolutionary Era in Charlotte Precinct / William P. McDermott -- "The women! in this place have risen in a mob": Women rioters and the American Revolution in the Hudson River Valley / Thomas S. Wermuth -- Officers and a lady: the Hudson Highlands and Georgia during the Revolution / Edward J. Cashin -- Fortresses, prisons, and huts -- Lewis Graham's house in Pine Plains: a Revolutionary log building / Neil Larson -- Revolutionary War fleet prison at Esopus / Frank Doherty -- The flawed works of Fort Constitution / James M. Johnson -- Battles and warfare -- A warm reception in the Hudson Highlands / James M. Johnson -- War in Schaghticoke: a footnote to the revolution in upstate New York / R. Beth Klopott -- Interpreting the battle for the Hudson River Valley: the Battle of Fort Montgomery -- James M. Johnson and Gregory Smith -- Revolutionary road: incident on Gallows Hill / Thomas C. O'Keefe -- Soldier of '76: the Revolutionary War service of a Connecticut private in the campaign for Yew york / William Sullivan -- Valcour Island: setting the conditions for victory at Saratoga / Gregory Tomlin.


Electronic reproduction.
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2013.
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New York (State)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--History--18th century.


Electronic books.

E230.5.N4 / K49 2013eb

974.7/03