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Land and Freedom: Rural Society, Popular Protest, and Party Politics in Antebellum New York
Land and Freedom Rural Society Popular Protest and Party Politics in Antebellum New York
Author: Reeve Huston
During the early nineteenth-century, two million acres of New York's farmland were controlled by a handful of great families. Along the Hudson Valley and across the Catskills lay the great estates of the Van Rensselaers, the Livingstons, and a dozen lesser landlords. Some two hundred and sixty thousand men, women, and children-a twelfth of the p...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195158229
ISBN-10: 0195158229
Publication Date: 5/24/2002
Pages: 306
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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