David Smith

Studies in the Land

The Northeast Corner

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on primary documents such as farmer's diaries, small rural papers of the 19th century, and the publications of state agricultural societies, this provocative study presents an intelligent overview into the driving forces of that shaped American history in the Northeast.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 162mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780415932103
• ISBN-10: 0415932106
• Artikelnr.: 21705446

Autorenporträt

David C. Smith is Emeritus Professor of History, Professor of Agricultural History and Quaternary Studies at the University of Maine and the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station.

Inhaltsangabe

A. PrefaceB. Acknowledgements and DedicationSection One: General StudiesI.
Maine's Changing Landscape to 1820II. Maine and Its Public DomainIII.
Toward a Theory of Maine HistoryIV. The Logging FrontierSection Two: Forest
and Logging StudiesV. Wood Pulp and Newspapers, 1867-1900 VI. Logging the
IslandsVII. Virgin Timber: The Maine Woods as a Locale for Juvenile
FictionSection Three: Tilling the Historic Past: Studies in Agricultural
HistoryVIII. William A. Drew and the Maine ShakersIX. Middle Range Farming
in the Civil War Era: Life on a Farm in Seneca County, New YorkX.
Agriculture in New York State to 1880: The Impact of State (Public)
FundsXI. North American Farmers and British Agriculture, 1795 -1885 XII.
The Coastal Shipping Trade on the Eve of the Railroad: Gardiner, Maine in
the Early 1830s