- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 376 p.) : ill., maps, facs.
- Uniform Title
- American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century (Online)
- Alternative Title
- American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-366) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2017942158
- OCLC
- ssj0002060870
- Author
Bushman, Richard L.
- Title
The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century [electronic resource] : A Social and Cultural History / Richard Lyman Bushman.
- Imprint
New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2018.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-366) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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