LEADER 03837nam 22004935 450 001 9910815819803321 005 20230126215947.0 010 $a0-300-23520-8 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300235203 035 $a(CKB)4100000004837201 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001921674 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5387920 035 $a(DE-B1597)536068 035 $a(OCoLC)1035556249 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300235203 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004837201 100 $a20191022d2018 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 181 $2rdacontent 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmerican Farmer in the Eighteenth Century $eA Social and Cultural History /$fRichard L. Bushman 210 1$aNew Haven, CT :$cYale University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$d©2018 215 $a1 online resource $cillustration (black and white), maps (black and white) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2018. 311 0 $a0-300-22673-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tPart One. farm thought --$t1. The Farm Idea. The Life Plans of Family Farmers --$t2. A Note on Sources. How Documents Think --$tPart Two. North America, 1600-1800 --$t3. The Nature of the South. The Creation of Sectional Systems --$t4. Generation of Violence. A Population Explosion Ignites Conflict --$tPart Three. Connecticut, 1640-1760 --$t5. Uncas and Joshua. The Acquisition of Connecticut --$t6. Sons and Daughters. Provision for the Young --$t7. Farmers' Markets. How the Exchange Economy Formed Society --$tPart Four. Pennsylvania, 1760-76 --$t8. Crèvecoeur's Pennsylvania. Farming in the Middle Colonies --$t9. Revolution. Why Farmers Fought --$t10. Family Mobility. The Lincolns of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois --$tPart Five. Virginia, 1776-1800 --$t11. Founding Farmers. The Contradictions of the Planter Class --$t12. Jefferson's Neighbors. Economy, Society, and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Virginia --$t13. Learning Slavery. How Slaves Learned to Be Slaves and Whites to Become Masters --$tPart Six. Approaching the Present --$t14. American Agriculture, 1800-1862 --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aAn 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. 606 $aFarm life$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xSocial life and customs$y18th century 615 0$aFarm life$xHistory. 676 $a630.973 700 $aBushman$b Richard L.$0948655 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815819803321 996 $aAmerican Farmer in the Eighteenth Century$94122288 997 $aUNINA