Country People
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- ISBN 9780820377209
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2026
- Publisher: University of Georgia Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Although historians have given considerable attention to the American Revolution, the agricultural history of the American War for Independence exists only in pieces found in scattered articles and passing references in various books dealing with the war. Nonagricultural historians have ignored it or treated it almost as an aside and unworthy of analysis, even when it is related to other war topics. Yet, the revolution had profound effects on American agriculture during the war and after.
The Country People brings the many pieces of this story together in a synthesis that provides an overview of agriculture during the American Revolution—from 1774 until signing of the Peace of Paris on September 3, 1783. In so doing, preeminent agricultural historian R. Douglas Hurt asks (and answers) three essential questions: What did farmers do in their daily lives during the revolutionary years from 1774 to 1783? How did the war affect farmers and planters, and how did they influence the war? And what were the consequences of the war on American agriculture?
R. DOUGLAS HURT is an emeritus professor in the Department of History at Purdue University. Hurt is a past president of the Agricultural History Society, a former editor of Agricultural History, and a Fellow of the Agricultural History Society. He has received the Gladys L. Baker Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Agricultural History Society. He is the author of Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri’s Little Dixie, which won the Missouri Book Award from the State Historical Society and Agriculture in the Midwest, 1815–1900, which won the Jon Gjerde Book Prize presented by the Midwestern History Association. Hurt lives and writes in eastern Tennessee.
