Tin Horns and Calico

A stirring tale of the antirent agitation in the Catskills, Hudson Valley and up-state New York in the 1840’s. “As the somewhat cryptic title suggests, this book is concerned primarily with one aspect of a many-sided theme in the economic and social history of New York state, and it deals with that topic in its final stage of popular protest and legal liquidation. During the first two centuries of New York's history the dominant form of landholding in the Hudson Valley was the large estate occup