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From British peasants to colonial American farmers / by Allan Kulikoff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kulikoff, Allan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--United States--History.
- Agriculture.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--Great Britain--History.
- Agriculture--Economic aspects--Europe--History.
- Farm tenancy--United States--History.
- Farm tenancy.
- Farm tenancy--Great Britain--History.
- Farm tenancy--Europe--History.
- United States--Economic conditions--To 1865.
- United States.
- Great Britain--Economic conditions--18th century.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Economic conditions--17th century.
- Europe--Economic conditions--18th century.
- Europe.
- Europe--Economic conditions--17th century.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (500 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- With this book, Allan Kulikoff offers a sweeping new interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy in Britain's mainland American colonies. Examining the lives of farmers and their families, he tells the story of immigration to the colonies, traces patterns of settlement, analyzes the growth of markets, and assesses the impact of the Revolution on small farm society.Beginning with the dispossession of the peasantry in early modern England, Kulikoff follows the immigrants across the Atlantic to explore how they reacted to a hostile new environment and its India
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: From Peasants to Farmers; Prologue: The Remaking of Rural England; 1. From England to America; 2. This Newfound Land; 3. New Lands, New Peoples; 4. Deprivation, Desire, and Emigration; 5. Markets and Farm Households in Early America; Epilogue: The Farmers' War and Its Aftermath; Afterword: Toward a Farmers' Nation; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-470) and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908709-6-4
- 979-88-908709-7-1
- 1-4696-1645-9
- 0-8078-6078-6
- OCLC:
- 476268630
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