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Canada and the United States

Allan Kulikoff. From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2000. Pp. xiii, 484. Cloth $59.95, paper $22.50.

Allan Kulikoff has given us a broadly conceived, synthetic account of the economic and social lives of early American farmers. He sees his study as parallel to but distinct from other "master narratives" of early America: John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard's Economy of British America 1607–1789 (1985), D. W. Meinig's Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History (1986), Jack P. Greene's Pursuits of Happiness: The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture (1988), and David Hackett Fischer's Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (1989). While the chapters are arranged chronologically, the focus of each is topical, and the result is one of the most distinctive aspects of the work: anecdotes and evidence from throughout the colonies (and, in some chapters, from disparate places in Britain and Germany) are lumped together in a way that challenges the regional analysis of most other synthetic studies. The approximately 300 pages of text are buttressed by more than 170 smaller-print pages of notes and bibliography, which will prove a gold mine for anyone trying to reference writing about the experiences of early rural Americans. Philadelphia, New York, Boston, and the like, of course, get hardly any mention. . . .

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