Land and freedom : rural society, popular protest, and party politics in antebellum New York / Reeve Huston.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Huston, Reeve, 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Agriculture--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the early nineteenth-century, two million acres of New York's farmland were controlled by a handful of great families. Along the Hudson Valley and across the Catskills lay the great estates of the Van Rensselaers, the Livingstons, and a dozen lesser landlords. Some two hundred and sixty thousand men, women, and children-a twelfth of the population of New York, the nation's most populous state-worked this land as tenants. Beginning in 1839, these tenants created a movement dedicated to destroying the estates and distributing the land to those who farmed it. The ""anti-rent"" movement qui

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1 Landlords and Tenants, 1785-1820; 2 Toward Crisis, 1819-1840; 3 The Fall of the House of Van Rensselaer, 1819-1839; 4 Origins of the Anti-Rent Movement, 1839-1844; 5 Land and Freedom, 1844-1846; 6 The Parties and "the People," 1844-1846; 7 "A Right to the Soil"; 8 Fast-Fish and the Temple of the Philistines; 9 Free Labor; Statistical Appendix; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 0-19-515822-9
• 1-280-47346-0
• 1-60256-975-4
• 0-19-803109-2
• 0-19-513600-4

OCLC:

935262143