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Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors
Thomas S. Wermuth
其他書名
The Transformation of Rural Society in the Hudson River Valley, 1720-1850
出版SUNY Press, 2001-10-05
主題History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)History / United States / State & Local / GeneralHistory / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)History / Social History
ISBN079145083X9780791450833
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=n1PSbS5yAwkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Although Rip Van Winkle was a fictional character, his community in the mid-Hudson Valley of New York State was very real. Thomas S. Wermuth’s book shows that the popular view of Hudson Valley farmers as self-sufficient, independent, and free of governmental authority is as fictional as the character of Rip Van Winkle himself. In fact these mid-Hudson farmers lived in villages where economic practices and behavior were regulated by civil authorities as well as neighborhood concerns, and where acquisitive practices that were believed to endanger the public good were forbidden.