Author: Steven KearlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural literature
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
American Agriculturist Readership Survey
Author: Steven KearlPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural literature
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Richard L. BushmanPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300235208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
An illuminating study of America’s agricultural society during the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Founding eras In the eighteenth century, three†‘quarters of Americans made their living from farms. This authoritative history explores the lives, cultures, and societies of America’s farmers from colonial times through the founding of the nation. Noted historian Richard Bushman explains how all farmers sought to provision themselves while still actively engaged in trade, making both subsistence and commerce vital to farm economies of all sizes. The book describes the tragic effects on the native population of farmers’ efforts to provide farms for their children and examines how climate created the divide between the free North and the slave South. Bushman also traces midcentury rural violence back to the century’s population explosion. An engaging work of historical scholarship, the book draws on a wealth of diaries, letters, and other writings—including the farm papers of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington—to open a window on the men, women, and children who worked the land in early America.
The American Farmer
Author: American Agriculturist
Author: The Development of American Agriculture
Author: Willard W. CochranePublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452900537
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers
Author: Allan KulikoffPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
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 Indian inhabitants. He discusses how colonists secured land, built farms, and bequeathed those farms to their children. Emphasizing commodity markets in early America, Kulikoff shows that without British demand for the colonists' crops, settlement could not have begun at all. Most important, he explores the destruction caused during the American Revolution, showing how the war thrust farmers into subsistence production and how they only gradually regained their prewar prosperity.
American Agriculturist
Author: The American Agriculturist
Author: Problems of Plenty
Author: R. Douglas HurtPublisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A compact narrative history of American agriculture over the last century, emphasizing the farmer's growing reliance on the federal government.
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