Farm, Shop, Landing

Martin Bruegel is ChargÉ de recherche at the Laboratoire de recherche sur la Consommation in the DÉpartement d’Economie et Sociologie at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique at Ivry sur Seine, France.

• Illustrations, Tables, Figures, and Maps ixAcknowledgments xiIntroduction: Everyday Life and the Making of Rural Development in the Hudson Valley 11. Exchange and the Creation of the Neighborhood in the Late Eighteenth Century 132. To Market, to Mill, to the Woods 413. Natural Resources and Economic Development 644. Farms Woven into the Landscape: Agricultural Developments, 1810-1850s 905. Country Shops and Factory Creeks, 1807-1850s 1266. "Things, Not Thought": Wealth, Income, and Patterns of Consumption, 1800-1850s 1597. The Culture of Public Life 187Conclusion: Labor, the Manor, and the Market 216Notes 227Bibliography 275Index 299

“This is an extremely well-researched and sophisticated contribution to American rural history. 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 outstanding work. In an era where so many historians are focusing on smaller and smaller subjects, it is a pleasure to read a book that directly tackles the big picture. Indeed, it is something close to a histoire totale. It not only addresses a topic of extraordinary importance but does so with theoretical sophistication and remarkable research.”-Richard Stott, George Washington University "An outstanding environmental history. . . . A deeply researched, tightly argued, and nicely written study. The book is both an important scholarly monograph and a fine paperback addition to reading lists for advanced undergraduate and graduate-level history courses." - James A. Henretta (American Historical Review) "Bruegel adds notably to our understanding of how and why a new way of life came about in the two generations following the American Revolution. His account deserves attention from all historians interested in understanding how, in concrete terms, social change came about and was experienced." - Christopher Clark (Journal of Social History)