Download or read book From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers written by Allan Kulikoff and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The British farmer or Sketches in verse of a country life written by J. Hazel and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Farmer in England 1650 1980 written by Richard W. Hoyle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farmers held a pivotal role in the capitalist agriculture that emerged in England in the eighteenth century, yet they have attracted little attention from rural historians. Farmers made agriculture happen. They brought together the capital and the technical and management skills which allowed food to be produced. It was they - and not landowners - who employed and supervised labour. They accepted the risk inherent in agriculture, paying largely fixed rents out of fluctuating and uncertain incomes. They are the rural equivalent of the small businessman with his own firm, employing people and producing for markets, sometimes distant ones. Our ignorance of the farmer might be justified by the claim that they are ill-documented, but in fact farmers were normally literate and kept records - day books, journals, accounts. This volume goes some way to counter the claim that a history of the farmer cannot be written by showing the range of materials available and the diversity of approaches which can be employed to study the activities and actions of individual farmers from the sixteenth century onwards. Farm records offer invaluable insights into the farming economy which are available nowhere else. In this volume accounts are used in a variety of ways - as the means to access single farms, but also in gross, as a national sample of accounts, to reveal regional variation over time. For the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries the range of sources available increases enormously and farmers - indeed farmer's wives too - emerge as articulate commentators on their own position, using correspondence to outline their difficulties in the First World War. Some even developed second careers as newspaper columnists and journalists. This book focuses attention back on the farmer and, it is hoped, will help to restore farmers to their rightful position in history as rural entrepreneurs.
Download or read book The British Farmer s Cyclopaedia written by Thomas Potts and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Farmer s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies written by John Dickinson and published by New York : Outlook Company. This book was released on 1903 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Gentry the Southern Planter and the Northern Family Farmer written by James L. Huston and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JAMES L. HUSTON is professor of history at Oklahoma State University and the author of The Panic of 1857 and the Coming of the Civil War; Securing the Fruits of Labor: The American Concept of Wealth Distribution, 1765-1900; Calculating the Value of the Union: Slavery, Property Rights, and the Economic Origins of the Civil War ; and Stephen A. Douglas and the Dilemmas of Democratic Equality.
Download or read book British Farmer s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Pastoral written by James Rebanks and published by Penguin Books Limited. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a boy, James Rebanks's grandfather taught him to work the land the old way. Their family farm in the Lake District hills was part of an ancient landscape- a patchwork of crops and meadows, of pastures grazed with livestock, and hedgerows teeming with wildlife. And yet, by the time James inherited the farm, it was barely recognisable. The men and women had vanished from the fields; the old stone barns had crumbled; the skies had emptied of birds and their wind-blown song. English Pastoral is the story of an inheritance- one that affects us all. It tells of how rural landscapes around the world were brought close to collapse, and the age-old rhythms of work, weather, community and wild things were lost. And yet this elegy from the Lake District fells is also a song of hope- how, guided by the past, one farmer began to salvage a tiny corner of England that was now his, doing his best to restore the life that had vanished and to leave a legacy for the future. This is a book about what it means to have love and pride in a place, and how, against all the odds, it may still be possible to build a new pastoral- not a utopia, but somewhere decent for us all.
Download or read book The British Farmer and His Competitors written by William E. Bear and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century written by Richard L. Bushman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book British Farming a Description of the Mixed Husbandry of Great Britain written by John Wilson (farmer at Edington Mains.) and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Farmer written by John Finlayson and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agriculture written by James Anderson Scott Watson and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British farmer s almanack by an experienced agriculturalist J Donaldson written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Short History of Farming in Britain written by Ralph Whitlock and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British Farmer written by John Finlayson and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
