The American Farmer in the Eighteenth Century: A Social and Cultural History

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Dedication
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Preface
PART ONE. FARM THOUGHT
	1. The Farm Idea: The Life Plans of Family Farmers
	2. A Note on Sources: How Documents Think
PART TWO. NORTH AMERICA, 1600–1800
	3. The Nature of the South: The Creation of Sectional Systems
	4. Generation of Violence: A Population Explosion Ignites Conflict
PART THREE. CONNECTICUT, 1640–1760
	5. Uncas and Joshua: The Acquisition of Connecticut
	6. Sons and Daughters: Provision for the Young
	7. Farmers’ Markets: How the Exchange Economy Formed Society
PART FOUR. PENNSYLVANIA, 1760–76
	8. Crèvecoeur’s Pennsylvania: Farming in the Middle Colonies
	9. Revolution: Why Farmers Fought
	10. Family Mobility: The Lincolns of Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois
PART FIVE. VIRGINIA, 1776–1800
	11. Founding Farmers: The Contradictions of the Planter Class
	12. Jefferson’s Neighbors: Economy, Society, and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Virginia
	13. Learning Slavery: How Slaves Learned to Be Slaves and Whites to Become Masters
PART SIX. APPROACHING THE PRESENT
	14. American Agriculture, 1800–1862
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