Of cabbages and Kings County
Of cabbages and Kings County
About this book
No one today thinks of Brooklyn, New York, as an agricultural center. Yet Kings County enjoyed over two centuries of farming prosperity. Even as late as 1880 it was one of the nation's leading vegetable producers, second only to neighboring Queens County.In Of Cabbages and Kings County, Marc Linder and Lawrence Zacharias reconstruct the history of a lost agricultural community. Their study focuses on rural Kings County, the site of Brooklyn's tremendous expansion during the latter part of the nineteenth century. In particular, they question whether sprawl was a necessary condition of A
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Environmental EconomicsGreen BusinessNatural ResourcesNATUREAgricultureUrbanizationFarmsEconomic conditionsRural Land useBUSINESS & ECONOMICSHistoryNew York Times reviewedUtilisation agricole du solHistoireUrbanisationAspect économiqueExploitations agricolesEconomic aspects