Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-297) and index
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Contents; Illustrations, Tables, Figures, and Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Everyday Life and the Making of RuralDevelopment in the Hudson Valley; 1 Exchange and the Creation of the Neighborhood inthe Late Eighteenth Century; 2 To Market, to Mill, to theWoods; 3 Natural Resources and Economic Development; 4 Farms Woven into the Landscape: Agricultural Developments, 1810-1850s; 5 Country Shops and Factory Creeks, 1807-1850s; 6 ''Things, Not Thought'': Wealth, Income, andPatterns of Consumption, 1800-1850s; 7 The Culture of Public Life; Conclusion: Labor, the Manor, and the Market; Notes