The Agrarian Origins of American Capitalism

by Kulikoff, Allan

• ISBN13: 9780813914206
• ISBN10: 0813914205
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: Capitalist Transformation and Agrarian Society	p. 1
Perspectives on Rural Capitalism
The Transition to Capitalism in Rural America	p. 13
Problems of Definition	p. 14
The Debate over Exchange Relations	p. 18
Explicating the American Transition Debate	p. 24
The State, the Household, and Capitalist Development	p. 27
The Rise and Demise of the American Yeoman Classes	p. 34
The Formation of the American Yeoman Classes	p. 37
Land, the Yeomanry, and Capitalists in the New Nation, 1780-1860	p. 43
Labor, Farm Women, and the Reproduction of Yeoman Households, 1800-1880	p. 47
Toward Monopoly Capital: Yeoman and the Nation, 1860-1900	p. 52
The Legacy of the Yeoman Classes: The Twentieth Century	p. 57
The Languages of Class in Rural America	p. 60
The Languages of Rural Class in Early America	p. 64
The Making of Languages of Rural Class	p. 69
Jacksonian Debates over Rural Class Language	p. 77
The Disruption of Rural Class Languages	p. 90
Capitalism and the American Revolution
Was the American Revolution a Bourgeois Revolution?	p. 99
The Revolution and the Diffusion of Capitalist Economic Relations	p. 102
Revolutionary Ideology and Possessive Individualism	p. 112
The Promise of the Revolution	p. 117
A Bourgeois Beginning	p. 124
The Revolution and the Making of the American Yeoman Classes	p. 127
The Emergence of a Yeoman Ideology	p. 129
Yeomen and the Making of the Revolution	p. 132
Yeomen and the Shaping of Revolutionary Institutions	p. 138
Yeomen and the American Constitution	p. 142
The Legacy of the Revolution	p. 146
The Political Economy of Military Service in Revolutionary Virginia	p. 152
Principles and Practice of Military Procurement in Virginia	p. 153
Patterns of Wartime Service	p. 162
The Militia and the Invasion of Virginia	p. 171
The Virginia Militia and the Revolution	p. 179
Rural Migration and Capitalist Transformation
Free Migration and Cultural Diffusion in Early America, 1600-1860	p. 183
English Capitalism, English Migration, and Colonial Immigration	p. 185
Immigration to British North America	p. 189
European Emigration and Cultural Invention before the Revolution	p. 194
Internal Migration in Rural North America, 1600-1800	p. 203
Internal Migration in an Era of Capitalist Transformation	p. 208
Internal Migration, Class Formation, and American Regional Cultures	p. 217
Rural Migration and Capitalist Hegemony, 1860-1900	p. 223
Uprooted Peoples: The Political Economy of Slave Migration, 1780-1840	p. 226
English Merchant Capital and the Pre-Revolutionary Movements of Slaves	p. 227
The American Revolution, Industrial Capitalism, and Forced Slave Migration	p. 230
World Capitalism and the Internal Movement of Slaves, 1790-1840	p. 237
The Process of Forced Migration	p. 245
Rebuilding Slave Communities	p. 253
The Legacy of Capitalism	p. 264
Appendix: Explaining the Percentage of Slaves in the 1840 Population	p. 273
Bibliography	p. 275
Index	p. 331
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