The American farmer in the eighteenth century : a social and cultural history /: a social and cultural history. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Richard Lyman Bushman.
• Authors: Bushman, Richard L
• 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.
• Publisher Details: New Haven : Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 630.973; Farmers -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Farm life -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Agriculture -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Agriculteurs -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 18e siècle; Vie à la ferme -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 18e siècle; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- General; Manners and customs; Farm life; Agriculture; Farmers; United States -- Social life and customs -- 18th century; États-Unis -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 18e siècle; United States; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780300235203; 0300235208
• Related ISBNs: 9780300226737; 030022673X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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