From British peasants to colonial American farmers [[electronic resource] /] / by Allan Kulikoff
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| Autore: |
Kulikoff Allan
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| Titolo: |
From British peasants to colonial American farmers [[electronic resource] /] / by Allan Kulikoff
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, NC, : University of North Carolina Press, 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (500 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 338.1/0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | From British peasants to colonial American farmers |
| ISBN: | 1-4696-1645-9 |
| 0-8078-6078-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910454474303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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