| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

From Privileges to Rights: Work and Politics in Colonial New York City. By Simon Middleton. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. x, 306 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8122-3915- 6.)

Simon Middleton's portrait of skilled artisans in colonial New Amsterdam and New York not only establishes that members of this understudied group were key players in the city's development, it also challenges reigning scholarly models about the aspirations and political culture of these tradesmen before the American Revolution. Although Middleton adopts a familiar chronology of imperial governance, wars, and colonial urban growth, he explicitly rejects standard views that bring city artisans onto the political stage only late in the colonial era, as well as scholarship that postpones fundamental changes in artisans' lives until the so-called market revolution and the transition to capitalism in the nineteenth century.

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