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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles E Brooks |
| ISBN: | 0801431204 9780801431203 |
| OCLC Number: | 32890840 |
| Description: | 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. The Holland Land Company -- 2. The Settlers -- 3. "The Holland Land Purchase is overspread with woodchoppers" -- 4. Labor, Land, and Property Rights -- 5. The Agrarian Convention of 1827 -- 6. Rebellion -- 7. "To take contracts at the point of the bayonet" |
| Other Titles: | Holland Land Purchase |
| Responsibility: | Charles E. Brooks. |
Abstract:
Brooks argues that historians have been too quick to view ordinary people as the pawns of various elites; the frontier farmers and small producers of the Holland Land Purchase, he maintains, cannot easily be placed along a continuum stretching from republican virtue to liberal self-interest. They simply wanted access to the land and resources necessary for a modest, comfortable life.
Frontier Settlement and Market Revolution also explores the ecological impact of frontier settlement and the evolution of private land development based on the decision either to clear land for farming or to harvest timber resources for potash, lumber, maple sugar, fuel wood, and scrub pasture.
When slumping land values and rising indebtedness generated a crisis for both landlords and settlers in the 1820s, conflict between the self-interest of small producers and the Holland Land Company's urge to control the region's economic growth was inevitable.
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