Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "A Very Beautiful and Fertile Wheatland"
The Seventeenth-Century Settlement of the Hudson River Valley
2. "One Body Corporate and Politique"
Politics, Society, and Community in the Eighteenth-Century
Valley Towns
3. "A Comfortable Subsistence"
Rural Economic Culture in the Eighteenth Century
4. "We Are Daily Alarmed, and Our Streets Filled with Mobs"
The Revolution in the Valley, 1775-1785
5. "The Farmer Now Sells for Money"
Hudson Valley Farmers and the Market Revolution, 1785-1820
6. "The Harbingers of Commerce"
Mid-Hudson Valley and the Creation of a Market Society, 1820-1850
Conclusion
"A Diversified Economy and Society"
The Mid-Hudson Valley and the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Notes
Bibliography
Index