The Roots of Rural Capitalism : : Western Massachusetts, 1780–1860 /

The Roots of Rural Capitalism : : Western Massachusetts, 1780–1860 / / Christopher Clark.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Clark, Christopher,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
©1992
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 23 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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