Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780-1860

by Martin Bruegel (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2002

  $37.50

  Tells the story of farmer William Coventry struggling in the face of bad harvests, widow Mary Livingston battling her tenants, blacksmith Samuel Fowks perfecting the cast-iron plough, and Hannah Bushnell sending her butter to market, the so-called market revolution sheds its inevitability - as well as its anonymity.