| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmers. By Allan Kulikoff. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xvi, 484 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2569-7. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-8078-4882-4.)

For some time Allan Kulikoff has been exploring the synthesis between "market" historians, who emphasize the rapid transformation of colonial North America toward capitalism, and "social" historians, who insist on the persistence of noncapitalist traditions. This new study argues for a composite portrait of the "small farmers" who accounted for "two-thirds of colonial families," drawing from mountains of scholarship produced by both the market and the social perspectives. Kulikoff's small farmers emphasized family over wage labor, customary neighborhood exchange, and family and local exchange even though small surpluses "wound up" in distant markets. But they are also enterprising, eager to diversify, and willing to refine the household division of labor, and they become relatively market savvy. Although these characteristics would seem to clash in particular farm families, Kulikoff's synthesis of "big economic and demographic structures" erases many distinctions. . . .

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