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Table of contents
Acknowledgments xi
INTRODUCTION
From Peasants to Farmers 1
PROLOGUE
The Remaking of Rural England 7
The Medieval Legacy 8
The English Road to Agrarian Capitalism 16
Households and the Transformation of Gender Relations 27
CHAPTER ONE
From England to America 39
Colonial Promotion and Immigration 42
Motivations for Migration 53
Servants and Farmers, Mechanics and Merchants 61
From Emigrant to Immigrant 71
CHAPTER TWO
This Newfound Land 73
This Land Is Not Ours 75
This Land Should Not Be Theirs 85
This Land Is Ours 106
CHAPTER THREE
New Lands, New Peoples 125
Hugging the Coast: The Land System of Tidewater Areas 127
Conquest of the Borderlands 138
Moving to the Empty Land 145
Making a Home in the Hills and Valleys: Colonizing the Borderlands 150
CHAPTER FOUR
Deprivation, Desire, and Emigration 165
A Peasant's and Worker's Paradise? 167
Economic Development and British Emigration 170
Poverty and Poor Law in Britain 174
Decaying Feudalism in German Lands 180
Migration and Emigration 184
The Process of Emigration 190
CHAPTER FIVE
Markets and Farm Households in Early America 203
To Market, To Market 205
Both a Borrower and a Lender Be? 216
Household Formation 226
Family Labor and Hired Hands 242
EPILOGUE
The Farmers' War and Its Aftermath 255
Disruption of the Agrarian Economy 256
Who Plowed the Fields and Made the Corn? 261
The Ravages of War 268
The Balance of Terror 275
Refugees and Émigrés 277
Rebuilding Farm Markets 280
New Peoples and New Lands 283
AFTERWORD
Toward a Farmers' Nation 289
Notes 293
Bibliography 367
Index 471
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