The agrarian origins of American capitalism Book

	Preface
	Introduction: Capitalist Transformation and Agrarian Society	1
	Perspectives on Rural Capitalism
1	The Transition to Capitalism in Rural America	13
	Problems of Definition	14
	The Debate over Exchange Relations	18
	Explicating the American Transition Debate	24
	The State, the Household, and Capitalist Development	27
2	The Rise and Demise of the American Yeoman Classes	34
	The Formation of the American Yeoman Classes	37
	Land, the Yeomanry, and Capitalists in the New Nation, 1780-1860	43
	Labor, Farm Women, and the Reproduction of Yeoman Households, 1800-1880	47
	Toward Monopoly Capital: Yeoman and the Nation, 1860-1900	52
	The Legacy of the Yeoman Classes: The Twentieth Century	57
3	The Languages of Class in Rural America	60
	The Languages of Rural Class in Early America	64
	The Making of Languages of Rural Class	69
	Jacksonian Debates over Rural Class Language	77
	The Disruption of Rural Class Languages	90
	Capitalism and the American Revolution
4	Was the American Revolution a Bourgeois Revolution?	99
	The Revolution and the Diffusion of Capitalist Economic Relations	102
	Revolutionary Ideology and Possessive Individualism	112
	The Promise of the Revolution	117
	A Bourgeois Beginning	124
5	The Revolution and the Making of the American Yeoman Classes	127
	The Emergence of a Yeoman Ideology	129
	Yeomen and the Making of the Revolution	132
	Yeomen and the Shaping of Revolutionary Institutions	138
	Yeomen and the American Constitution	142
	The Legacy of the Revolution	146
6	The Political Economy of Military Service in Revolutionary Virginia	152
	Principles and Practice of Military Procurement in Virginia	153
	Patterns of Wartime Service	162
	The Militia and the Invasion of Virginia	171
	The Virginia Militia and the Revolution	179
	Rural Migration and Capitalist Transformation
7	Free Migration and Cultural Diffusion in Early America, 1600-1860	183
	English Capitalism, English Migration, and Colonial Immigration	185
	Immigration to British North America	189
	European Emigration and Cultural Invention before the Revolution	194
	Internal Migration in Rural North America, 1600-1800	203
	Internal Migration in an Era of Capitalist Transformation	208
	Internal Migration, Class Formation, and American Regional Cultures	217
	Rural Migration and Capitalist Hegemony, 1860-1900	223
8	Uprooted Peoples: The Political Economy of Slave Migration, 1780-1840	226
	English Merchant Capital and the Pre-Revolutionary Movements of Slaves	227
	The American Revolution, Industrial Capitalism, and Forced Slave Migration	230
	World Capitalism and the Internal Movement of Slaves, 1790-1840	237
	The Process of Forced Migration	245
	Rebuilding Slave Communities	253
	The Legacy of Capitalism	264
	Appendix: Explaining the Percentage of Slaves in the 1840 Population	273
	Bibliography	275
	Index	331