The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century : A Social and Cultural History / Richard Lyman Bushman.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bushman, Richard L. (Author)
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.
United States.
Farm life.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xiii, 376 pages : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.