Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors: The Transformation of Rural Society in the Hudson River Valley, 1720-1850,9780791450840

Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors: The Transformation of Rural Society in the Hudson River Valley, 1720-1850

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ISBN13: 9780791450840
ISBN10: 0791450848
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-09-01
Publisher(s): State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary

Explores the social and economic transformations of the mid-Hudson River Valley during the key expansionist period in American history.

Author Biography

Thomas S. Wermuth is Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Director of the Hudson River Valley Institute at Marist College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1(10)
``A Very Beautiful and Fertile Wheatland''
The Seventeenth-Century Settlement of the Hudson River Valley
11(8)
``One Body Corporate and Politique''
Politics, Society, and Community in the Eighteenth-Century Valley Towns
19(26)
``A Comfortable Subsistence''
Rural Economic Culture in the Eighteenth Century
45(24)
``We Are Daily Alarmed, and Our Streets Filled with Mobs''
The Revolution in the Valley, 1775--1785
69(22)
``The Farmer Now Sells for Money''
Hudson Valley Farmers and the Market Revolution, 1785--1820
91(24)
``The Harbingers of Commerce''
Mid-Hudson Valley and the Creation of a Market Society, 1820--1850
115(20)
CONCLUSION ``A Diversified Economy and Society''
The Mid-Hudson Valley and the Mid-Nineteenth Century
135(8)
Notes 143(24)
Bibliography 167(12)
Index 179

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