Land development in western New York contributed to some of the
most dramatic and convulsive changes in nineteenth-century America.
In Frontier Settlement and Market Revolution, Charles E. Brooks
explains how the Holland Land Purchase in which the Holland Land
Company purchased 3.3 million acres of land in western New York
State contributed to the development of a frontier region. Powerful
cultural and religious changes flowing from evangelical
Protestantism, together with settlement and the intensification of
market relations, put western New York in the vanguard of
capitalist transformation in rural areas. Brooks also describes the
ecological impact of frontier settlement and the evolution of
private land development based on the decision either to clear land
for farming or to harvest forest products for potash, lumber, maple
sugar, fuel wood, and scrub pasture."
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