The End of the Hudson Valley's Peculiar Institution: The Anti-Rent Movement's Politics, Social Relations, and Economics
Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.Pp. 408.$49.95.If, like me, you tend toward indolence, then when you are presented with two recent books on the same topic, your first thought is "I am not reading both; I wonder which is better."I fear I have little succor to offer fellow sloths interested in the New York anti-rent movement (1839-65 or so).These two books are complements, not substitutes.McCurdy's Anti-Rent Era in New York Politics, 1839-1865 provides essential political history and expertly, lucidly dissects abstruse, dated court decisions and statutes.Huston's Land and Freedom: Rural Society, Popular Protest, and Party Politics in Antebellum New York presents a rich, detailed social history of the same era.For catholic scholars interested in examining the anti-rent episode from different perspectives, these two works cover most of the angles.This essay endeavors to fill one important perspective omitted by both McCurdy and Huston: economics.
Source: Law & Social Inquiry
Author: Eric Kades
Institution: William & Mary
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
OpenAlex ID: W2136018597