The American farmer in the eighteenth century : a social and cultural history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bushman, Richard L. (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Subjects:	Farmers > United States > History > 18th century. Farm life > United States > History > 18th century. Agriculture > United States > History > 18th century. United States > Social life and customs > 18th century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.