This volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history. Building on the insights and
Between the late colonial period and the Civil War, the countryside of the American northeast was largely transformed. Rural New England changed from a society
This book moves rural history into explorations of modern politics: diverse rural peoples and their complex relationships to the American state in the twentieth
The distinction between 'capitalism from above' and 'capitalism from below' is important in the analysis of the agrarian question in poor countries. The 'Prussi