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Beekmantown, New York: Forest Frontier to Farm Community
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Beekmantown, New York: Forest Frontier to Farm Community
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Three major conclusions emerge from Philip L. White's study of Beekmantown, New York. First, the economic advantages of the frontier attracted a first generation of settlers relatively high in social and economic status, but the disappearance of frontier conditions brought a second generation of settlers appreciably lower in status. Second, White rejects the romantic notion that the frontier fostered equality and argues instead that the frontier's economic opportunities fostered inequality. Finally, in contrast to revisionist arguments, he affirms that in Beekmantown the Jacksonian period does indeed warrant characterization as the era of the "common man."
This book represents a model in community history: the narrative is full of human interest; the scholarship is prodigious; the applications are universal.