Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations, Tables, Figures, and Maps ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Everyday Life and the Making of Rural Development in the Hudson Valley 1
6. 1 Exchange and the Creation of the Neighborhood in the Late Eighteenth Century 13
7. 2 To Market, to Mill, to the Woods 41
8. 3 Natural Resources and Economic Development 64
9. 4 Farms Woven into the Landscape: Agricultural Developments, 1810–1850s 90
10. 5 Country Shops and Factory Creeks, 1807–1850s 126
11. 6 ‘‘Things, Not Thought’’: Wealth, Income, and Patterns of Consumption, 1800–1850s 159
12. 7 The Culture of Public Life 187
13. Conclusion: Labor, the Manor, and the Market 216
14. Notes 227
15. Bibliography 275
16. Index 299