Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors The Transformation of Rural Society in the Hudson River Valley, 1720-1850

Name: Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors The Transformation of Rural Society in the Hudson River Valley, 1720-1850
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ISBN: 9780791450840

ISBN-10: 0791450848

ISBN-13: 9780791450840

Edition: 2001

Authors: Thomas S. Wermuth

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 9/20/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 198
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.594



Acknowledgments


Introduction



"A Very Beautiful and Fertile Wheatland" The Seventeenth-Century Settlement of the Hudson River Valley



"One Body Corporate and Politique" Politics, Society, and Community in the Eighteenth-Century Valley Towns



"A Comfortable Subsistence" Rural Economic Culture in the Eighteenth Century



"We Are Daily Alarmed, and Our Streets Filled with Mobs" The Revolution in the Valley, 1775-1785



"The Farmer Now Sells for Money" Hudson Valley Farmers and the Market Revolution, 1785-1820



"The Harbingers of Commerce" Mid-Hudson Valley and the Creation of a Market Society, 1820-1850


Conclusion: "A Diversified Economy and Society" The Mid-Hudson Valley and the Mid-Nineteenth Century


Notes


Bibliography


Index