The Decline of Aristocracy in the Politics of New York

Fox examines the gradual erosion of the political power and privilege of the aristocratic class in New York during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He shows how economic and social changes, as well as political reform movements, worked together to transform the political landscape of the state.

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