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Book Review


From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers. By Allan Kulikoff. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xiii + 484 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $59.95, cloth; $22.50, paper.)

     Allan Kulikoff's From British Peasants provides a fresh, and overdue, reexamination of the process by which British and German immigrants became colonial Americans. Over the course of 292 pages, which are broken into a prologue, five chapters, and an epilogue, he describes the social, cultural, economic, and environmental imperatives that first drove migrants across the Atlantic, and then transformed them into uniquely colonial American farmers. In the process, Kulikoff tells a fascinating story rich with anecdotes skillfully woven into the main narrative. . . .


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