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- 1 online resource (pages cm)
- Uniform Title
- British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer (Online)
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- Alternative Title
- British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Preface -- PART I. THE ENGLISH AND BRITISH AGRICULTURAL STANDARD, 1300-1800 -- The English Civil War and the birth of the free labor ideology -- The standard : British agriculture, 1660-1870 -- PART II. NORTHERN FAMILY FARMING AND THE SOUTHERN PLANTATION COMPLEX -- English husbandry on another continent : North American farming, 1607-1815 -- Dimensions of antebellum northern farming -- The actors on the northern farm and their quest for competency -- The plantation assault on the Southern yeoman -- Inspiring fear : the plantation, the British gentry, and mastery of others -- PART III. AGRICULTURE AND SECTIONAL ANTAGONISMS -- The agricultural basis of the free labor ideology in the United States -- Davids versus Goliaths : the sectional controversy as a fight between agricultural regions -- Epilogue -- Appendix A : Calculation of acreage owned by slaveholders and nonslaveholders -- Appendix B : Counties used for comparison.
- OCLC
- ssj0001466361
- Author
Huston, James L., 1947-
- Title
The British Gentry, the Southern Planter, and the Northern Family Farmer [electronic resource] : Agriculture and Sectional Antagonism in North America / James L. Huston.
- Imprint
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record.
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Project Muse.
- LCCN
2014033732