The Roots of Rural Capitalism: Western Massachusetts, 1780-1860
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780801496936 (0801496934)
Publish date: July 28th 1992
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Clark’s account of the transition from a “subsistence-surplus” economy to “rural capitalism” in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts is built around his observation that it was not an ideological shift that prompted this change, but “the search for livelihoods and security.” A balanced intro...