Reeve Huston

Biographic Data

ID4446212
NAMEReeve Huston
GIVEN NAMESReeve
FAMILY NAMEHuston
SIGNATUREHUSTON R
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Politics as a Plural Noun

    Reeve HustonARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2025

    Since the beginnings of the professional historical writing, scholars who call themselves historians of politics have defined their field narrowly, as the history of electoral politics, political parties, and state actors. Over the same long period, a rich and growing body of scholarship has implicitly challenged this Procrustean understanding of public life. With notable exceptions, however, most of this latter work has defined itself as somethi…

  • Land Conflict and Land Policy in the United States, 1785–1841

    Reeve HustonCHAPTERThe World of the Revolutionary…2015

  • The Anti-Rent Era in New York Law and Politics, 1839-1865

    James A Henretta, Charles W Mccurdy et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2001Cited by: 3

    A compelling blend of legal and political history, this book chronicles the largest tenant rebellion in U.S. history. From its beginning in the rural villages of eastern New York in 1839 until its collapse in 1865, the Anti-Rent movement impelled the state's governors, legislators, judges, and journalists, as well as delegates to New York's bellwether constitutional convention of 1846, to wrestle with two difficult problems of social policy. One …

  • Land and Freedom: Rural Society, Popular Protest, and Party Politics in Antebellum New York

    Jamie L Bronstein, Jamie Bronstein et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Part of a wave of new scholarship on antebellum land reform movements, Reeve Huston's Land and Freedom recounts the story of New York's AntiRenters. He chronicles the connections of grassroots movement with the shifting soil of the second party system, documenting the way in which AntiRenters forged surprising alliances with both Whigs and Democrats and emerged changed in the process. The AntiRenters were islands of tenantry in a sea of freeholde…

  • Land and Freedom

    Reeve HustonBOOKLand and freedom2000

    During the early nineteenth century, 2 million acres of New York's farmland were controlled by a handful of great families, such as the Van Rensselaers and the Livingstons. Some 260,000 men, women, and children—a twelfth of the population of New York, the nation's most populous state—worked this land as tenants. Beginning in 1839, these tenants created a movement dedicated to destroying the estates and distributing the land to those who farmed it…

  • "The Parties and "The People: The New York Anti-Rent Wars and the Contours of Jacksonian Politics

    Reeve HustonARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2000Cited by: 1

    In early fall of 1845, Horace Greeley, editor of New-York Tribune, sought to explain causes of an explosive controversy in Empire State politics: Anti-Rent Wars. New York had long been home to dozens of leasehold estates, ranging in size from 3,000 to 750,000 acres. When Greeley wrote, some 260,000 New Yorkers-a twelfth of state's population-lived on farms, town lots, and mill sites rented from landlords in perpetuity or on long-term leases. Six …

  • Land and freedom: Rural society, popular protest, and party politics in antebellum New York

    Reeve HustonBOOKLand and freedom2000

    During the early nineteenth century, two million acres of New York's farmland were controlled by a handful of great families. Along the Hudson Valley and across the Catskills lay the great estates of the Van Rensselaers, the Livingstons, and a dozen lesser landlords. Some two hundred and sixty thousand men, women, and children - a twelfth of the population of New York, the nation's most populous state - worked this land as tenants. Beginning in 1…