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The American farmer in the eighteenth century : a social and cultural history
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Title
The American farmer in the eighteenth century : a social and cultural history / Richard Lyman Bushman.
ISBN
0300235208
9780300235203
030022673X
9780300226737
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations, maps
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Summary
In the eighteenth century, three-quarters of Americans made their living from farms. This authoritative history explores the lives, cultures, and societies of America's farmers from colonial times through the founding of the nation. Noted historian Richard Bushman explains how all farmers sought to provision themselves while still actively engaged in trade, making both subsistence and commerce vital to farm economies of all sizes.
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EBSCOhost eBook collection, Yale University Press.
Other formats
Print version: Bushman, Richard L. American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 02, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
PART ONE. FARM THOUGHT. 1. The Farm Idea. The Life Plans of Family Farmers. 2. A Note on Sources. How Documents Think
PART TWO. NORTH AMERICA, 1600-1800. 3. The Nature of the South. The Creation of Sectional Systems. 4. Generation of Violence. A Population Explosion Ignites Conflict
PART THREE. CONNECTICUT, 1640-1760. 5. Uncas and Joshua. The Acquisition of Connecticut. 6. Sons and Daughters. Provision for the Young. 7. Farmers' Markets. How the Exchange Economy Formed Society
PART FOUR. PENNSYLVANIA, 1760-76. 8. Crèvecoeur's Pennsylvania. Farming in the Middle Colonies. 9. Revolution. Why Farmers Fought. 10. Family Mobility. The Lincolns of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois
PART FIVE. VIRGINIA, 1776-1800. 11. Founding Farmers. The Contradictions of the Planter Class. 12. Jefferson's Neighbors. Economy, Society, and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Virginia. 13. Learning Slavery. How Slaves Learned to Be Slaves and Whites to Become Masters
PART SIX. APPROACHING THE PRESENT. 14. American Agriculture, 1800-1862.
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