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The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century
A Social and Cultural History
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English
Published/Copyright:
2018
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An illuminating study of America’s agricultural society during the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Founding eras
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Richard Lyman Bushman is Gouverneur Morris Professor of History Emeritus at Columbia University. He is a winner of the Bancroft Prize and serves on the National Advisory Board for The Joseph Smith Papers
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
ix - Part One. farm thought
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1. The Farm Idea. The Life Plans of Family Farmers
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2. A Note on Sources. How Documents Think
23 - Part Two. North America, 1600–1800
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3. The Nature of the South. The Creation of Sectional Systems
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4. Generation of Violence. A Population Explosion Ignites Conflict
58 - Part Three. Connecticut, 1640–1760
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5. Uncas and Joshua. The Acquisition of Connecticut
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6. Sons and Daughters. Provision for the Young
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7. Farmers’ Markets. How the Exchange Economy Formed Society
122 - Part Four. Pennsylvania, 1760–76
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8. Crèvecoeur’s Pennsylvania. Farming in the Middle Colonies
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9. Revolution. Why Farmers Fought
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10. Family Mobility. The Lincolns of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois
183 - Part Five. Virginia, 1776–1800
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11. Founding Farmers. The Contradictions of the Planter Class
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12. Jefferson’s Neighbors. Economy, Society, and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Virginia
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13. Learning Slavery. How Slaves Learned to Be Slaves and Whites to Become Masters
244 - Part Six. Approaching the Present
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14. American Agriculture, 1800–1862
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Notes
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Index
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eBook published on:
May 22, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9780300235203
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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352
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8 b-w illus.
