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Farm, Shop, Landing - The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780-1860 (Paperback)
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Farm, Shop, Landing - The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780-1860 (Paperback)
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At the turn of the nineteenth century, when the word "capital"
first found its way into the vocabulary of mid-Hudson Valley
residents, the term irrevocably marked the profound change that had
transformed the region from an inward-looking, rural community into
a participant in an emerging market economy. In "Farm, Shop,
Landing" Martin Bruegel turns his attention to the daily lives of
merchants, artisans, and farmers who lived and worked along the
Hudson River in the decades following the American Revolution to
explain how the seeds of capitalism were spread on rural U.S.
soil.
Combining theoretical rigor with extensive archival research,
Bruegel's account diverges from other historiographies of
nineteenth-century economic development. It challenges the
assumption that the coexistence of long-distance trade, private
property, and entrepreneurial activity lead to one inescapable
outcome: a market economy either wholeheartedly embraced or
entirely rejected by its members. When Bruegel tells the story of
farmer William Coventry struggling in the face of bad harvests,
widow Mary Livingston battling her tenants, blacksmith Samuel Fowks
perfecting the cast-iron plough, and Hannah Bushnell sending her
butter to market, Bruegel shows that the social conventions of a
particular community, and the real struggles and hopes of
individuals, actively mold the evolving economic order. Ultimately,
then, "Farm, Shop, Landing" suggests that the process of
modernization must be understood as the result of the simultaneous
and often contentious interplay of social and economic spheres.
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