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The Roots of Rural Capitalism : Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860 /
Between the late colonial period and the Civil War, the countryside of the American northeast was largely transformed. Rural New England changed from a society of independent farmers relatively isolated from international markets into a capitalist economy closely linked to the national market, an ec...
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- PART I INTRODUCTION
- 1 Interpreting Rural Economic Change
- PART II INVOLUTION: 1780 TO THE 1820s
- 2 Households and Power in the Countryside in the Late Eighteenth Century
- 3 Households, Farming, and Manufacturing
- PART III THE BOUNDS OF INDEPENDENCE
- 4 Family Burdens and Household Strategies
- 5 Merchants and Households
- PART IV CONCENTRATION: THE 1820s TO 1860
- 6 "The Advantage Their Pay Demands": Morality and Money
- 7 Capital, Work, and Wealth
- 8 Farmers, Markets, and Society in Mid-Century
- PART V CONCLUSION
- 9 The Connecticut Valley in Perspective
- Appendix: Population of the Six Towns, 1790-1860
- Index