From British peasants to colonial American farmers, Allan Kulikoff
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From British peasants to colonial American farmers, Allan Kulikoff
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eng
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non fiction
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From British peasants to colonial American farmers
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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Allan Kulikoff
Summary
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 children. Emphasizing commodity markets in early America, Kulikoff shows that without British demand for the colonists' crops, settlement could not have begun at all. Most important, he explores the destruction caused during the American Revolution, showing how the war thrust farmers into subsistence production and how they only gradually regained their prewar prosperity
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adult
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- Europe -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
- Farm tenancy -- United States -- History
- United States -- Economic conditions -- To 1865
- Farm tenancy -- Great Britain -- History
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History
- Agriculture + Economic aspects -- Europe -- History
- Electronic books
- Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 17th century
- Farm tenancy -- Europe -- History
- Agriculture + Economic aspects -- Great Britain -- History
- Agriculture + Economic aspects -- United States -- History
- Europe -- Economic conditions -- 17th century
- Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
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- Europe -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
- Farm tenancy -- United States -- History
- United States -- Economic conditions -- To 1865
- Farm tenancy -- Great Britain -- History
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History
- Agriculture + Economic aspects -- Europe -- History
- Electronic books
- Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 17th century
- Farm tenancy -- Europe -- History
- Agriculture + Economic aspects -- Great Britain -- History
- Agriculture + Economic aspects -- United States -- History
- Europe -- Economic conditions -- 17th century
- Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
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