Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780–1860
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (526 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822328496 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Specialized topic, does the job" according to C. Braden. This is an interesting book. It truly is about the market society in the Hudson Valley area. It discusses how things got to market, what went to market, and it discusses the names of persons who were involved in the area and how the markets were set up. Specialized topic, probably not of general interest.. Excellent rural history! This is an excellent recounting of the changes in a rural society from the Revolutionary era to the antebellum era. Bruegel very skillfully combines economic and social change. Mining newspapers, diaries, farmers' account ledgers, and a variety of other primary and secondary sources, the author provides many examples of the interaction and response of the region's inhabitants to the changing world around them. This is the type of book history teachers and students should be reading!. Aireman17 said Tough read but packed with info. The writing style of Bruegel is a bit hard to grasp but the detail is very impressive. The overall theme of the book is highly developed and investigated throughout the book. You can really get a great understanding of the Hudson Valley during this time period the book focuses on.
Bruegel has written a detailed local study on the development of the Hudson River Valley, which has important methodological and interpretive implications for many other regions and fields.”— Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “This is an extremely well-researched and sophisticated contribution to American rural history
When Bruegel tells the story of farmer William Coventry struggling in the face of bad harvests, widow Mary Livingston battling her tenants, blacksmith Samuel Fowks perfecting the cast-iron plough, and Hannah Bushnell sending her butter to market, Bruegel shows that the social conventions of a particular community, and the real struggles and hopes of individuals, actively mold the evolving economic order. soil.Combining theoretical rigor with extensive archival research, Bruegel’s account diverges from other historiographies of nineteenth-century economic development. It challenges the assumption that the coexistence of long-distance trade, private property, and entrepreneurial activity lead to one inescapable outcome: a market economy either wholeheartedly embraced or entirely rejected by its members. At the turn of the nineteenth century, when the word “capital” first found its way into the vocabulary of mid-Hudson Valley residents, the term irrevocably marked the profound change that had transformed the region from an inward-looking, rural community into a participant in an emerging market economy. In Farm, Shop, Landing Martin Bruegel turns his attention to the daily lives of merchants, artisans, and farmers who lived and worked along the Hudson River in the decades following the American Revolution to explain how the seeds of capitalism were spread on rural U.S. Ultimately, then, Farm, Shop, Landing suggests tha