Beyond the farm : national ambitions in rural New England /

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During the first half-century of American independence, a fundamental change in the meaning and morality of ambition emerged. Beyond the Farm blends biography, social history, and cultural history to describe and explain that change.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Opal, J. M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2008.
Series:Early American studies.
Subjects:
1700 - 1865
Rural population > New England > 18th century.
Ambition > Social aspects > New England > History > 18th century.
Ambition > Social aspects > United States > History > 18th century.
National characteristics, American > History > 18th century.
Population rurale > Nouvelle-Angleterre > 18e siècle.
Ambition > Aspect social > Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Ambition > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
National characteristics, American
Rural conditions
Rural population
Social conditions.
New England > History > 1775-1865.
New England > Social conditions > 18th century.
New England > Rural conditions > 18th century.
Nouvelle-Angleterre > Histoire > 1775-1865.
Nouvelle-Angleterre > Conditions sociales > 18e siècle.
Nouvelle-Angleterre > Conditions rurales > 18e siècle.
New England
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Finding independence
  • Creating commerce
  • Opening households
  • Exciting emulation
  • Seeking livelihoods
  • Pursuing distinction
  • Epilogue: Worlds gained and lost.

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