Title: The agricultural transition in New York State
First published: 1995
Description: The Agricultural Transition in New York State focuses on the transformation of the U.S. agricultural economy in the middle of the nineteenth century and its impact on farm families. The author examines class formation, migration, and family structure in the context of emerging agricultural markets and the growing availability of cheap consumer goods.

Drawing on U.S. and state census records, as well as agricultural publications of the era and farmers' diaries and letters, Parkerson employs quantitative methodology as well as the techniques of traditional narrative history to re-create the economic world in which nineteenth-century farmers secured their livelihood.
Subjects: Agriculture, Economic aspects, Economic aspects of Agriculture, Economic conditions, Farmers, History, Rural-urban migration, Social conditions, Agriculture, economic aspects, united states, New york (n.y.), economic conditions, New york (n.y.), social conditions, New york (n.y.), history, United states, economic conditions, United states, social conditions
Places: New York (State), United States
Time periods: 1865-1918, 19th century, To 1865
LC classification: HD1775.N8 P37 1995