Agricultural Transition in New York State

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Purdue University Press, 2002 - 206 頁
This study of Agricultural Transition in New York State focuses on the transformation of the U.S. agricultural economy in the middle of the nineteenth century and the its impact on farm families.
 

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Farmers in Transition
3
The Countryside in Motion
25
Pastoral Myths
41
The Traditional Yeoman
55
The Surplus Market Farmer
79
Migration Markets and Mobility
105
Family Structure as a Market Strategy
127
Migration and the Agricultural Transition
143
Samples and Map
151
Commercialization Formula 1855 and 1865
157
Notes
161
Bibliography
177
Index
193
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Don Parkerson is a new social historian interested in the lives of the common folk in the past. He is Associate Professor of History and Distinguished Professor of Teaching. He is the author of The Agricultural Transition in New York State (Iowa State University Press, 1995) and with Jo Ann Parkerson The Emergence of the Common School in the U.S. Countryside (Mellen Press, 1998) and Transitions in American Education: A Social History of Teaching (Routledge/Falmer Press, 2001). His articles have appeared in Historical Methods, Social Science History and Journal of Family History. He was the Assistant Director of the Family and Community History Center at the Newberry Library in Chicago, has served on the Board of Editors for Social Science History and was the Program Chair for their Fall 2001 meetings in Chicago. He teaches American History surveys as well as courses in Historical Methods and Quantitative Methods.

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