Description |
xxii, 347 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Part 1. Improving the Lord's garden. Competency -- Commerce -- Contradiction -- Part 2. Farmers, 1630-1700. The rural economy of England -- Settlement -- Laborers, servants, and exchanging works -- Fathers and sons -- Tenancy -- Part 3. Fishermen, 1630-1675. The rise of North Atlantic fisheries -- Launching the fishery in New England -- Merchant patrons -- Fishing clients -- Work -- Society -- Part 4. Fishermen, 1675-1775. Shallops to schooners -- Clientage to free labor -- Seaport fishermen in Marblehead and Salem -- Cottage fishermen on Cape Ann -- Part 5. Farmers, 1700-1775. Markets and production -- Fathers and sons -- Servants and slaves -- Free labor and exchanging works -- By-employments -- Part 6. Fishermen, farmers, and manufactures, 1775-18850. Fishing : Revival -- Diversification -- Going gray in the service of the sea -- Leaving the sea -- Farming : Markets and production -- Relations of production -- The Northey Farm -- Manufacture -- Conclusion -- Appendixes. |
Provenance |
Gift of Dr. Brooke B. Hunter |
Subject |
Essex County (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
|
|
Farm life -- Massachusetts -- Essex County -- History.
|
|
Farm life. |
|
Massachusetts -- Essex County. |
|
History. |
|
Fishing -- Massachusetts -- Essex County -- History.
|
|
Fishing. |
|
Manners and customs. |
Genre/Form |
History.
|
Added Author |
Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
|
Added Title |
Farmers and fishermen |
Other Form: |
Online version: Vickers, Daniel, 1952- Farmers & fishermen. Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, by the University of North Carolina Press, ©1994 (OCoLC)621684602 |
ISBN |
0807844586 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
|
0807821489 (alkaline paper) |
|
9780807821480 (alkaline paper) |
|
9780807844588 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
|