Martin Bruegel

Farm, Shop, Landing

The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780-1860

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Produktbeschreibung

"This is an extremely well-researched and sophisticated contribution to American rural history. Bruegel has written a detailed local study on the development of the Hudson River Valley, which has important methodological and interpretive implications for many other regions and fields."-- Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780822328490
• ISBN-10: 0822328496
• Artikelnr.: 21122323

Autorenporträt

Martin Bruegel

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations, Tables, Figures, and Maps ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Everyday Life and the Making of Rural Development in the
Hudson Valley 1
1. Exchange and the Creation of the Neighborhood in the Late Eighteenth
Century 13
2. To Market, to Mill, to the Woods 41
3. Natural Resources and Economic Development 64
4. Farms Woven into the Landscape: Agricultural Developments, 1810-1850s 90
5. Country Shops and Factory Creeks, 1807-1850s 126
6. "Things, Not Thought": Wealth, Income, and Patterns of Consumption,
1800-1850s 159
7. The Culture of Public Life 187
Conclusion: Labor, the Manor, and the Market 216
Notes 227
Bibliography 275
Index 299