From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers

Name: From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers
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ISBN: 9780807848821

ISBN-10: 0807848824

ISBN-13: 9780807848821

Edition: 2000

Authors: Allan Kulikoff

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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 Indian inhabitants. He discusses how colonists secured land, built farms, and bequeathed those farms to their…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 11/13/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 504
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.12" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: From Peasants to Farmers


Prologue: The Remaking of Rural England


The Medieval Legacy


The English Road to Agrarian Capitalism


Households and the Transformation of Gender Relations



From England to America


Colonial Promotion and Immigration


Motivations for Migration


Servants and Farmers, Mechanics and Merchants


From Emigrant to Immigrant



This Newfound Land


This Land Is Not Ours


This Land Should Not Be Theirs


This Land Is Ours



New Lands, New Peoples


Hugging the Coast: The Land System of Tidewater Areas


Conquest of the Borderlands


Moving to the Empty Land


Making a Home in the Hills and Valleys: Colonizing the Borderlands



Deprivation, Desire, and Emigration


A Peasant's and Worker's Paradise?


Economic Development and British Emigration


Poverty and Poor Law in Britain


Decaying Feudalism in German Lands


Migration and Emigration


The Process of Emigration



Markets and Farm Households in Early America


To Market, To Market


Both a Borrower and a Lender Be?


Household Formation


Family Labor and Hired Hands


Epilogue: The Farmers' War and Its Aftermath


Disruption of the Agrarian Economy


Who Plowed the Fields and Made the Corn?


The Ravages of War


The Balance of Terror


Refugees and Emigres


Rebuilding Farm Markets


New Peoples and New Lands


Afterword: Toward a Farmers' Nation


Notes


Bibliography


Index