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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454474303321

Autore

Kulikoff Allan

Titolo

From British peasants to colonial American farmers [[electronic resource] /] / by Allan Kulikoff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, 2000

ISBN

1-4696-1645-9

0-8078-6078-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (500 p.)

Disciplina

338.1/0973

Soggetti

Agriculture - Economic aspects - United States - History

Agriculture - Economic aspects - Great Britain - History

Agriculture - Economic aspects - Europe - History

Farm tenancy - United States - History

Farm tenancy - Great Britain - History

Farm tenancy - Europe - History

Electronic books.

United States Economic conditions To 1865

Great Britain Economic conditions 18th century

Great Britain Economic conditions 17th century

Europe Economic conditions 18th century

Europe Economic conditions 17th century

United States Emigration and immigration History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-470) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Introduction: From Peasants to Farmers; Prologue: The Remaking of Rural England; 1. From England to America; 2. This Newfound Land; 3. New Lands, New Peoples; 4. Deprivation, Desire, and Emigration; 5. Markets and Farm Households in Early America; Epilogue: The Farmers' War and Its Aftermath; Afterword: Toward a Farmers' Nation; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 India