Economics and Culture
Opening Up the Rural History of the Early American Northeast
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2731964 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Clark (0000-0001-5011-6202) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 279 |
| Publication date | 1991-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0678 • E-ISSN: 1080-6490 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2712928 |
| OpenAlex | W2320388733 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 19 |
FOR SEVERAL REASONS THERE HAS BEEN A RAPID REVIVAL OF INTEREST in early American rural history over the past quarter-century. Demographic evidence has emphasized the importance of the eighteenth-century countryside: rural population as a proportion of the whole was increasing in the thirteen colonies between 1720 and 1775. The prospect of settlement on American land was an important stimulus to immigration; major political events, especially the American Revolution and the ratification of the Constitution, are only intelligible when the participation and opinions of rural people are taken into account. The continuing debate over slavery remains particularly one about rural societies, but the most noteworthy aspect of the current growth in rural history has been a new focus on the countryside of the Northeast, the settled hinterlands of New England and the mid-Atlantic region, where slavery was weak and forms of freehold farming predominated.' The character of these areas once seemed to present few intellectual problems, but recently it has become the subject of considerable controversy. Many historians of the Northeast during the 1950s and 1960s portrayed a rural society largely congruent with the commercial and industrial developments which were to occur in its midst from the late eighteenth century onward. They presented northern farmers as prototypical capitalists
Economic history · Ethnology · Political science · Sociology · Australian History and Society · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · World Systems and Global Transformations
Families and Farms
Elaboration of a settlement system
Property and Kinship
Quakers and the American Family
The Market and Massachusetts Farmers, 1750–1855
Re-Considering Migration Within Colonial New England
The modern world-system
The Best Poor Man's Country
Economic Growth and the Standard of Living in Southern New England, 1640-1774
Cash Is Good to Eat
The Roots of Rural Capitalism
Neighbors and Strangers
The Transition to Capitalism in Rural America
The Wealth of Patriarchs
Competency and Competition
How Self-Sufficient Was Early America
Petitioning and the New Moral Economy of Post-Revolutionary America
Work and Labor in Early America
From Puritan to Yankee
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2013 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |