During the latter part of the 18th century, farmers relied on oxen and horses to power crude woodenplows. All sowing was accomplished using a hand-held hoe, reaping of hay and grain with a sickle, and threshing with a flail. But in the 1790s, the horse-drawn cradle and scythe were int...
in fact, applies to all our figures, since one can hardly imagine a “propensity to miscount” which correlates with size of land holdings and goes up and down before and after plagues.
During the latter part of the 18th century, farmers relied on oxen and horses to power crude woodenplows. All sowing was accomplished using a hand-held hoe, reaping of hay and grain with a sickle, and threshing with a flail. But in the 1790s, the horse-drawn cradle and scythe were int...
Stage3Stage2Stage1IttookAmericansacenturyandahalftoexpandasfarwestastheAppalachianMountains,afewhundredmilesfromtheAtlanticcoast.Ittookanother50yearstopushthefrontiertotheMississippiRiver.By1863,fewerthan100,000pioneershadcrossedtheMississippi.By1850,pioneershadpushedtheedgeofsettlementallthewaytoTexas,theRocky...
Pandemics and plagues have a way of shifting the course of history, and not always in a manner immediately evident to the survivors. In the 14th Century, the Black Death killed close to half of Europe’s population. A scarcity of labor led to increased wages. Rising expectations culminated ...
“the saffron scourge,” was one of the great plagues of the New World. The tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas were subjected to devastating epidemics, and serious outbreaks occurred as far north asPhiladelphia,New York, and Boston but also as far away from theendemiccentres as ...
farm, and therefore that differential female filicide was definitely being practiced.(61) This principle, in fact, applies to all our figures, since one can hardly imagine a “propensity to miscount” which correlates with size of land holdings and goes up and d...