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- catalog abstract "Land development in western New York contributed to some of the most dramatic and convulsive changes in nineteenth-century America. Charles E. Brooks studies the Holland Land Purchase to explain the market revolution in the New England and New York countryside by tracing the actual development of a frontier region. Brooks argues that historians have been too quick to view ordinary people as the pawns of various elites; the frontier farmers and small producers of the Holland Land Purchase, he maintains, cannot easily be placed along a continuum stretching from republican virtue to liberal self-interest. They simply wanted access to the land and resources necessary for a modest, comfortable life. Frontier Settlement and Market Revolution also explores the ecological impact of frontier settlement and the evolution of private land development based on the decision either to clear land for farming or to harvest timber resources for potash, lumber, maple sugar, fuel wood, and scrub pasture. When slumping land values and rising indebtedness generated a crisis for both landlords and settlers in the 1820s, conflict between the self-interest of small producers and the Holland Land Company's urge to control the region's economic growth was inevitable.".
- catalog alternative "Holland Land Purchase".
- catalog contributor b8269996.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description "1. The Holland Land Company -- 2. The Settlers -- 3. "The Holland Land Purchase is overspread with woodchoppers" -- 4. Labor, Land, and Property Rights -- 5. The Agrarian Convention of 1827 -- 6. Rebellion -- 7. "To take contracts at the point of the bayonet."".
- catalog description "Brooks argues that historians have been too quick to view ordinary people as the pawns of various elites; the frontier farmers and small producers of the Holland Land Purchase, he maintains, cannot easily be placed along a continuum stretching from republican virtue to liberal self-interest. They simply wanted access to the land and resources necessary for a modest, comfortable life.".
- catalog description "Frontier Settlement and Market Revolution also explores the ecological impact of frontier settlement and the evolution of private land development based on the decision either to clear land for farming or to harvest timber resources for potash, lumber, maple sugar, fuel wood, and scrub pasture.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Land development in western New York contributed to some of the most dramatic and convulsive changes in nineteenth-century America. Charles E. Brooks studies the Holland Land Purchase to explain the market revolution in the New England and New York countryside by tracing the actual development of a frontier region.".
- catalog description "When slumping land values and rising indebtedness generated a crisis for both landlords and settlers in the 1820s, conflict between the self-interest of small producers and the Holland Land Company's urge to control the region's economic growth was inevitable.".
- catalog extent "x, 239 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0801431204 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca : Cornell University Press,".
- catalog spatial "New York (State)".
- catalog subject "974.7/03/092 20".
- catalog subject "F127.H7 B76 1996".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life New York (State)".
- catalog subject "Holland Purchase.".
- catalog subject "Land use, Rural New York (State) History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Holland Land Company -- 2. The Settlers -- 3. "The Holland Land Purchase is overspread with woodchoppers" -- 4. Labor, Land, and Property Rights -- 5. The Agrarian Convention of 1827 -- 6. Rebellion -- 7. "To take contracts at the point of the bayonet."".
- catalog title "Frontier settlement and market revolution : the Holland Land Purchase / Charles E. Brooks.".
- catalog title "Holland Land Purchase".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".