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Religion and Trade in New Netherland
"The Dutch colony of New Netherland in the seventeenth century enjoyed a greater diversity of religious beliefs than any of the English colonies in America at the time, except …
A Companion to Wittgenstein's Tractatus
Cornell University
This succinct and engaging history of the founding of Cornell University traces the institution's origins within the educational climate of mid-nineteenth-century America. …
The Golden Age of Homespun
"You have seen neglected oxbows, but what do you know of their making or of the training of a yoke of oxen?... What do you know of the rambling shoemakers who came to a farmhouse …
The Building of Cities
In this classic book that records a moment in the history of urban planning, the architect and city planner Harvey H. Kaiser examines the city-building process from the time when a …
The Wisconsin Pine Lands of Cornell University
A provision of the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 allowed Cornell University to acquire 500,000 acres of valuable timberland in northern Wisconsin. Although most land grant …
A Pioneer Songster
Folklorists and lovers of folk songs will delight in this collection of the lyrics of songs sung by settlers of western New York in the middle of the nineteenth century. The …
The Settlers
When a party of four women, five men, and a ten-year-old boy leave their comfortable homes in eastern New York and faced westward on a cold February morning in the year 1807, they …
The Sullivan Expedition of 1779
This sourcebook of the 1779 Sullivan Expedition against the pro-British Loyalists and Iroquois nations comprises two parts. In the first, originally published in 1943 as part of …
Landlords and Farmers in the Hudson-Mohawk Region, 1790–1850
The transition from a predominantly self-sufficient economy to one primarily dependent on the market in the first half of the nineteenth century was to effect changes in the United …
Crime and Law Enforcement in the Colony of New York, 1691–1776
The winner of the first New York State Historical Association Manuscript Award, this book is a fascinating attempt to show how criminal behavior fits into the society in which it …