{"product_id":"from-british-peasants-to-colonial-american-farmers-9780807848821","title":"From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeginning 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Allan Kulikoff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/13\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 6.14w x 1.27d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807848821\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2001 pg. 1316\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2001 pg. 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllan Kulikoff is professor of history at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. His previous books include \u003ci\u003eTobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680-1800\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45053426925683,"sku":"9780807848821","price":81.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_db0f5731-43c2-4aae-b8cc-a3d5b08940e5.jpg?v=1779970813","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/from-british-peasants-to-colonial-american-farmers-9780807848821","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}