Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Part One. farm thought
5. 1. The Farm Idea. The Life Plans of Family Farmers 3
6. 2. A Note on Sources. How Documents Think 23
7. Part Two. North America, 1600–1800
8. 3. The Nature of the South. The Creation of Sectional Systems 39
9. 4. Generation of Violence. A Population Explosion Ignites Conflict 58
10. Part Three. Connecticut, 1640–1760
11. 5. Uncas and Joshua. The Acquisition of Connecticut 83
12. 6. Sons and Daughters. Provision for the Young 105
13. 7. Farmers’ Markets. How the Exchange Economy Formed Society 122
14. Part Four. Pennsylvania, 1760–76
15. 8. Crèvecoeur’s Pennsylvania. Farming in the Middle Colonies 141
16. 9. Revolution. Why Farmers Fought 167
17. 10. Family Mobility. The Lincolns of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois 183
18. Part Five. Virginia, 1776–1800
19. 11. Founding Farmers. The Contradictions of the Planter Class 193
20. 12. Jefferson’s Neighbors. Economy, Society, and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Virginia 217
21. 13. Learning Slavery. How Slaves Learned to Be Slaves and Whites to Become Masters 244
22. Part Six. Approaching the Present
23. 14. American Agriculture, 1800–1862 273
24. Notes 295
25. Index 367