A Year's Residence in the United States of America: Treating of the Face of the Country, the Climate, the Soil... of the Expenses of Housekeeping... of the Manners and Customs of the People; and, of the Institutions of the Country...: Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781108032704
ISBN-10: 1108032702
Pagini: 630
Ilustrații: 1 map
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1108032702
Pagini: 630
Ilustrații: 1 map
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Part I: General preface; 1. Description of the situation and extent of Long Island, and also of the face of the country, and an account of the climate, seasons, and soil; 2. Ruta Baga. Culture, mode of preserving, and uses of the Ruta Baga, sometimes called the Russian, and sometimes the Swedish, turnip; Part II: Dedication; Preface; 3. Experiments as to cabbages; 4. Earth-burning; 5. Transplanting Indian corn; 6. Swedish turnips; 7. Potatoes; 8. Cows, sheep, hogs, and poultry; 9. Prices of land, labour, working cattle, husbandry implements; 10. Expenses of housekeeping; 11. Manners, customs, and character of the people; 12. Rural sports; 13. Paupers and beggars; 14. Government, laws, and religion; Part III: Dedication; Preface; Mr. Hulme's introduction to his journal; Mr. Hulme's journal, made during a tour in the western countries of America, in which tour he visited Mr. Birkbeck's settlement; Mr. Cobbett's letters to Mr. Birkbeck, remonstrating with that gentleman on the numerous delusions, contained in his two publications, entitled 'Notes on a Journey in America' and 'Letters from Illinois'; Postscript, being the details of an experiment made in the cultivation of the Ruta Baga; Second postscript, a refutation of Fearon's falsehoods.
Descriere
The English political reformer William Cobbett (1763–1835) discusses the practicalities of farming in America in this 1818–9 publication.