Joyce D. Goodfriend is Professor of History at the University of Denver. She is the author of Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664–1730, editor of Revisiting New Netherland: Perspectives on Early Dutch America, and coeditor of Going Dutch: The Dutch Presence in America, 1609–2009.

Besides using standard sources, the author effectively made use of various religious accounts. These include Moravian journals to illustrate aspects of women's history. Outstanding.(Choice) Goodfriend's overarching thesis is elegant yet subtle.... Careful social analysis provides historians with fresh incentives to connect the historiographical and narrative dots.(William and Mary Quarterly) Elegantly written and exhaustively researched.... Goodfriend effectively undercuts older, simplistic views of New Yorkers as grasping merchants or a 'factious people.'.... Historians of British New York will appreciate [Who Should Rule at Home?]'s deep research; its attention to Christianity, race, and ethnicity; and its discovery of the subtle forms of resistance to authority.(The Journal of American History) In her well-researched study, Goodfriend situates herself in the historiography of early America as well as of the American Reovlution by uncovering what, other than political ideology, motivated New Yorkers to confront authority and try to rule themselves.(American Historical Review) Goodfriend shows that in some ways individual endeavours had greater impacts than more spectacular events.(The English Historical Review)

• Introduction: The Pan-ethnic Elite and the Problem of Cultural AuthorityPart I. The Indigestible Dutch1. The Crystallization of an Anti-Dutch Narrative2. From Nation to Linguistic CommunityPart II. Pious Commoners3. George Whitefield Awakens New York City4. Becoming Religious ConsumersPart III. Defiant Dependents5. "Master of the House"?6. Attached to the Household7. Sabotaging the Civilizers Conclusion: Tipping the Cultural Scales

Joyce D. Goodfriend is Professor of History at the University of Denver. She is the author of Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664–1730, editor of Revisiting New Netherland: Perspectives on Early Dutch America, and coeditor of Going Dutch: The Dutch Presence in America, 1609–2009.

Besides using standard sources, the author effectively made use of various religious accounts. These include Moravian journals to illustrate aspects of women's history. Outstanding.(Choice) Goodfriend's overarching thesis is elegant yet subtle.... Careful social analysis provides historians with fresh incentives to connect the historiographical and narrative dots.(William and Mary Quarterly) Elegantly written and exhaustively researched.... Goodfriend effectively undercuts older, simplistic views of New Yorkers as grasping merchants or a 'factious people.'.... Historians of British New York will appreciate [Who Should Rule at Home?]'s deep research; its attention to Christianity, race, and ethnicity; and its discovery of the subtle forms of resistance to authority.(The Journal of American History) In her well-researched study, Goodfriend situates herself in the historiography of early America as well as of the American Reovlution by uncovering what, other than political ideology, motivated New Yorkers to confront authority and try to rule themselves.(American Historical Review) Goodfriend shows that in some ways individual endeavours had greater impacts than more spectacular events.(The English Historical Review)

• Introduction: The Pan-ethnic Elite and the Problem of Cultural AuthorityPart I. The Indigestible Dutch1. The Crystallization of an Anti-Dutch Narrative2. From Nation to Linguistic CommunityPart II. Pious Commoners3. George Whitefield Awakens New York City4. Becoming Religious ConsumersPart III. Defiant Dependents5. "Master of the House"?6. Attached to the Household7. Sabotaging the Civilizers Conclusion: Tipping the Cultural Scales

Joyce D. Goodfriend is Professor of History at the University of Denver. She is the author of Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664–1730, editor of Revisiting New Netherland: Perspectives on Early Dutch America, and coeditor of Going Dutch: The Dutch Presence in America, 1609–2009.

Besides using standard sources, the author effectively made use of various religious accounts. These include Moravian journals to illustrate aspects of women's history. Outstanding.(Choice) Goodfriend's overarching thesis is elegant yet subtle.... Careful social analysis provides historians with fresh incentives to connect the historiographical and narrative dots.(William and Mary Quarterly) Elegantly written and exhaustively researched.... Goodfriend effectively undercuts older, simplistic views of New Yorkers as grasping merchants or a 'factious people.'.... Historians of British New York will appreciate [Who Should Rule at Home?]'s deep research; its attention to Christianity, race, and ethnicity; and its discovery of the subtle forms of resistance to authority.(The Journal of American History) In her well-researched study, Goodfriend situates herself in the historiography of early America as well as of the American Reovlution by uncovering what, other than political ideology, motivated New Yorkers to confront authority and try to rule themselves.(American Historical Review) Goodfriend shows that in some ways individual endeavours had greater impacts than more spectacular events.(The English Historical Review)

• Introduction: The Pan-ethnic Elite and the Problem of Cultural AuthorityPart I. The Indigestible Dutch1. The Crystallization of an Anti-Dutch Narrative2. From Nation to Linguistic CommunityPart II. Pious Commoners3. George Whitefield Awakens New York City4. Becoming Religious ConsumersPart III. Defiant Dependents5. "Master of the House"?6. Attached to the Household7. Sabotaging the Civilizers Conclusion: Tipping the Cultural Scales