Social Structure of Revolutionary America

by Jackson Turner Main

Book Overview

Professor Main's conviction is that an understanding of political history in Colonial America depends on a knowledge of the country's underlying social structure. To provide this he examines different types of societies in revolutionary America between 1763 and 1788: frontier, subsistence farm, commercial farm, urban. He studies in detail the nature of land ownership, distribution of property and income, relations between income levels and culture,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691045658
• ISBN13: 9780691045658
• Release Date: September 1965
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.