From British Peasants To Colonial American Farmers

Author : Allan Kulikoff
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807860786

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From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers by Allan Kulikoff Pdf

With this book, Allan Kulikoff offers a sweeping new interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy in Britain's mainland American colonies. Examining the lives of farmers and their families, he tells the story of immigration to the colonies, traces patterns of settlement, analyzes the growth of markets, and assesses the impact of the Revolution on small farm society. Beginning with the dispossession of the peasantry in early modern England, Kulikoff follows the immigrants across the Atlantic to explore how they reacted to a hostile new environment and its Indian inhabitants. He discusses how colonists secured land, built farms, and bequeathed those farms to their children. Emphasizing commodity markets in early America, Kulikoff shows that without British demand for the colonists' crops, settlement could not have begun at all. Most important, he explores the destruction caused during the American Revolution, showing how the war thrust farmers into subsistence production and how they only gradually regained their prewar prosperity.

Author : Richard L. Bushman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300235203

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The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century by Richard L. Bushman Pdf

An illuminating study of America’s agricultural society during the Colonial, Revolutionary, and Founding eras In the eighteenth century, three†‘quarters of Americans made their living from farms. This authoritative history explores the lives, cultures, and societies of America’s farmers from colonial times through the founding of the nation. Noted historian Richard Bushman explains how all farmers sought to provision themselves while still actively engaged in trade, making both subsistence and commerce vital to farm economies of all sizes. The book describes the tragic effects on the native population of farmers’ efforts to provide farms for their children and examines how climate created the divide between the free North and the slave South. Bushman also traces midcentury rural violence back to the century’s population explosion. An engaging work of historical scholarship, the book draws on a wealth of diaries, letters, and other writings—including the farm papers of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington—to open a window on the men, women, and children who worked the land in early America.

Author : Willem Klooster,Alfred Padula
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429887642

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The Atlantic World by Willem Klooster,Alfred Padula Pdf

The Atlantic World: Essays on Slavery, Migration, and Imagination brings together ten original essays that explore the many connections between the Old and New Worlds in the early modern period. Divided into five sets of paired essays, it examines the role of specific port cities in Atlantic history, aspects of European migration, the African dimension, and the ways in which the Atlantic world has been imagined. This second edition has been updated and expanded to contain two new chapters on revolutions and abolition, which discuss the ways in which two of the main pillars of the Atlantic world—empire and slavery—met their end. Both essays underscore the importance of the Caribbean in the profound transformation of the Atlantic world in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This edition also includes a revised introduction that incorporates recent literature, providing students with references to the key historiographical debates, and pointers of where the field is moving to inspire their own research. Supported further by a range of maps and illustrations, The Atlantic World: Essays on Slavery, Migration, and Imagination is the ideal book for students of Atlantic History.

Author : Carroll P. Kakel III
Publisher : Springer
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030213053

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A Post-Exceptionalist Perspective on Early American History by Carroll P. Kakel III Pdf

This book argues that early American history is best understood as the story of a settler-colonial supplanting society—a society intent on a vast land grab of American Indian space and driven by a logic of elimination and a genocidal imperative to rid the new white settler living space of its existing Indigenous inhabitants. Challenging the still strongly held notion of American history as somehow exceptional or unique, it locates the history of the United States and its colonial antecedents as a central part of—rather than an exception to—the emerging global histories of imperialism, colonialism, and genocide. It also explores early American history in an imperial, transnational, and global frame, showing how the precedent of the North American West and its colonial trope of Indian wars were used by like-minded American and European expansionists to inspire and legitimate other imperial-colonial adventures from the late-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries.

Author : Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216143253

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Selling America by Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson Pdf

An in-depth look at the motivations behind immigration to America from 1607 to 1914, including what attracted people to America, who was trying to attract them, and why. Between 1820 and 1920, more than 33 million Europeans immigrated to the United States seeking the "American Dream"-an image of America as a land of opportunity and upward mobility sold to them by state governments, railroads, religious and philanthropic groups, and other boosters. But Christina A. Ziegler-McPherson shows that the desire to make and keep America a "white man's country" meant that only Northern Europeans would be recruited as settlers and future citizens while Africans, Asians, and other non-whites would either be grudgingly tolerated as slaves or guest workers or be excluded entirely. This book reframes immigration policy as an extension of American labor policy and connects the removal of American Indians from their lands to the settlement of European immigrants across the North American continent. Ziegler-McPherson contends that western and midwestern states with large American Indian, Asian, or Mexican populations developed aggressive policies to promote immigration from Europe to help displace those peoples, while Southern states sought to reduce their dependency upon Black labor by doing the same. Chapters highlight the promotional policies and migration demographics for each region of the United States.

Author : Joanna Brooks
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816684090

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Why We Left by Joanna Brooks Pdf

Joanna Brooks’s ancestors were among the earliest waves of emigrants to leave England for North America. They lived hardscrabble lives for generations, eking out subsistence in one place after another as they moved forever westward in search of a new life. Why, Brooks wondered, did her people and countless other poor English subjects abandon their homeland to settle for such unremitting hardship? The question leads her on a journey into a largely obscured dimension of American history. With her family’s background as a point of departure, Brooks brings to light the harsh realities behind seventeenth- and eighteenth-century working-class English emigration—and dismantles the long-cherished idea that these immigrants were drawn to America as a land of opportunity. American folk ballads provide a wealth of clues to the catastrophic contexts that propelled early English emigration to the Americas. Brooks follows these songs back across the Atlantic to find histories of economic displacement, environmental destruction, and social betrayal at the heart of the early Anglo-American migrant experience. The folk ballad “Edward,” for instance, reveals the role of deforestation in the dislocation and emigration of early Anglo-American peasant immigrants. “Two Sisters” discloses the profound social destabilization unleashed by the advent of luxury goods in England. “The Golden Vanity” shows how common men and women viewed their own disposable position in England’s imperial project. And “The House Carpenter’s Wife” offers insights into the impact of economic instability and the colonial enterprise on women. From these ballads, tragic and heartrending, Brooks uncovers an archaeology of the worldviews of America’s earliest immigrants, presenting a new and haunting historical perspective on the ancestors we thought we knew.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113272475

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American Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward G. Gray
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000096414002

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Colonial America by Edward G. Gray Pdf

An illustrated collection of documents that provide insights into the lives of American colonists, including letters, diaries, sermons, newspapers, and poems.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Southern States
ISBN : UIUC:30112077294236

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The Southern Historian by Anonim Pdf

Author : Evan Warwick Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P01008386J

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Her Real Sphere? by Evan Warwick Roberts Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Canada
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113375203

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Left History by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Ciment
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127761091

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Colonial America by James Ciment Pdf

Explores the complete early history of what would become the United States, including portraits of Native American life, early Spanish exploration, and the first Spanish, French, Dutch, Swedish, and English settlements.

Author : American Historical Association. Meeting,American Historical Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : United States
ISBN : WISC:89073078859

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Program of the ... Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association by American Historical Association. Meeting,American Historical Association Pdf

Some programs include also the programs of societies meeting concurrently with the association.

Author : Gary B. Nash,Julie Roy Jeffrey,John R. Howe,Peter J. Frederick,Allen Freeman Davis
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 1037 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0321094344

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The American People by Gary B. Nash,Julie Roy Jeffrey,John R. Howe,Peter J. Frederick,Allen Freeman Davis Pdf

An examination of the complex process of transformation in work organization, technology and labour and product markets that has occurred. The analysis moves between a broad appreciation of structural developments within the economies of the advanced industrial nations, and an in-depth study of enterprise and workplace. It is divided into four parts. The first part reviews the theoretical issues and debates raised by the growth of service industries and employment in the advanced industrial countries. Parts Two and Three are case studies of two service sectors - financial services and the National Health Service. Part Four relates the evidence to a broader appreciation of developments in management/workforce relations occurring in the service sector.

Author : Alan Brinkley
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132219390

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The Unfinished Nation by Alan Brinkley Pdf

Known for its clear narrative voice, impeccable scholarship, and affordability, Alan Brinkley' s "The Unfinished Nation" offers a concise but comprehensive examination of American History. Balancing social and cultural history with traditional political and diplomatic themes, it tells the story of the diversity and complexity of the United States and the forces that have enabled it to survive and flourish despite division. This fifth edition features eight new essays and enhanced coverage of recent events and developments in the continuing American story.