Author | Daniel Vickers |
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Language | English |
Series | New Edition |
Genre | Historical, Non-Fiction |
Publisher | Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press |
Publication date | December 31st 1994 |
Media type | Paperback |
Pages | 372 |
ISBN | 978-0807844588 |
Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630–1850 is a book by the Canadian historian Daniel Vickers, first published in 1994. [1] It analyzes and contrasts the economic roles of farmers and fishermen in early New England communities. [2]
It won the 1995 John H. Dunning Prize [3] as well as the 1994–95 Louis Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. [4] [5]
In the book, Vickers examines how a patriarchal system that relied on the unpaid labor of dependent sons transitioned gradually to an economic system in which these sons found work outside of the family farm. [6] For fishermen, he explores the shift from client-patron economic relations to a free market system, noting the difficulties fishermen faced in achieving economic independence in both systems. [2]
In the 1997 film Good Will Hunting, the title character cites the book during a history-of-economics debate in a Harvard Square barroom. [7]
Author | Daniel Vickers |
---|---|
Language | English |
Series | New Edition |
Genre | Historical, Non-Fiction |
Publisher | Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press |
Publication date | December 31st 1994 |
Media type | Paperback |
Pages | 372 |
ISBN | 978-0807844588 |
Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630–1850 is a book by the Canadian historian Daniel Vickers, first published in 1994. [1] It analyzes and contrasts the economic roles of farmers and fishermen in early New England communities. [2]
It won the 1995 John H. Dunning Prize [3] as well as the 1994–95 Louis Gottschalk Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. [4] [5]
In the book, Vickers examines how a patriarchal system that relied on the unpaid labor of dependent sons transitioned gradually to an economic system in which these sons found work outside of the family farm. [6] For fishermen, he explores the shift from client-patron economic relations to a free market system, noting the difficulties fishermen faced in achieving economic independence in both systems. [2]
In the 1997 film Good Will Hunting, the title character cites the book during a history-of-economics debate in a Harvard Square barroom. [7]