Tables of Contents for The Roots of Rural Capitalism

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Page Count

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

xii

Part I Introduction

Interpreting Rural Economic Change

Part II Involution: 1780 to the 1820s

Households and Power in the Countryside in the Late Eighteenth Century

Households, Farming, and Manufacturing

Part III The Bounds of Independence

Family Burdens and Household Strategies

121

Merchants and Households

156

Part IV Concentration: The 1820s to 1860

``The Advantage Their Pay Demands'': Morality and Money

195

Capital, Work, and Wealth

228

Farmers, Markets, and Society in Mid-Century

273

Part V Conclusion

The Connecticut Valley in Perspective

317

Appendix: Population of the Six Towns, 1790-1860

331

Index

333