Frontier Settlement and Market Revolution: The Holland Land Purchase

by Charles E. Brooks

Book Overview

Land development in western New York contributed to some of the most dramatic and convulsive changes in nineteenth-century America. In Frontier Settlement and Market Revolution, Charles E. Brooks explains how the Holland Land Purchase--in which the Holland Land Company purchased 3.3 million acres of land in western New York State--contributed to the development of a frontier region. Powerful cultural and religious changes flowing from evangelical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801477867
• ISBN13: 9780801477867
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Fall Creek Books
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher