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From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers (Paperback, New edition)
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From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers (Paperback, New edition)
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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 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. |A sweeping new interpretation of the
origins and development of the small farm economy of Britain's
American colonies. Examining the lives of farmers and their wives,
children, servants, and slaves, Alan Kulikoff tells the story of
immigration to the colonies, traces patterns of settlement,
analyzes the growth of market relations among settlers, and
assesses the impact of the Revolution on small farm society.
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