Table of Contents

Introduction1.The Holland Land Company
2. The Settlers
3. 'The Holland Land Purchase is overspread with woodchoppers"
4. Labor, Land, and Property Rights
5. The Agrarian Convention of 1827
6. Rebellion
7. 'To take contracts at the point of the bayonet"Index

About the Author

Charles E. Brooks is Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University.

Reviews

By reconstructing the activities of the Holland Land Company, settlers, and the emerging entrepreneurial elite on New York's frontier, Brooks demonstrates that the market revolution was spurred primarily by capitalists, while small producers fiercely resisted efforts by landlords to establish market agriculture.
*Journal of Economic History*