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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Bushman, Richard L. American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018] (DLC) 2017942158 (OCoLC)1005113453 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard L Bushman |
ISBN: | 9780300235203 0300235208 |
OCLC Number: | 1035556249 |
Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
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. |
Responsibility: | Richard Lyman Bushman. |
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"[A] landmark book."-Robert A. Gross, The Journal of American History"The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century offers a broad and deep look at the roughly three hundred thousand farms that dotted eastern North America by the time of the American Revolution" - J.M. Opal, American Historical Review"This is the only scholarly work that takes a multiregional approach to the history of agrarian life in eighteenth-century British America. It is an ambitious and elegantly written study."-Virginia DeJohn Anderson, author of The Martyr and the Traitor: Nathan Hale, Moses Dunbar, and the American Revolution"This book is the mark of a historian who knows his craft. It is a meticulously researched and clearly written study that surely will stand the test of time for usable history."-R. Douglas Hurt, author of Food and Agriculture during the Civil War"This gracefully written, fast-paced narrative makes a courageous effort to place farmers at center stage, rather than on the periphery. Readers will be captivated by Bushman's command of the subject."-David Vaught, Texas A&M University"Drawing on the insights of a long and distinguished career, Richard Bushman has written a notable book. The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century offers an original, highly readable account of agricultural practices and values in early America, and their legacy for later United States history."-Christopher Clark, University of Connecticut"In this brilliant history of rural life, Richard Bushman reveals with insight and empathy the resourceful struggles by farm families to wrest security from a volatile climate and fickle market."-Alan Taylor, author of American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 Read more...


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