Of cabbages and Kings County : agriculture and the formation of modern Brooklyn / Marc Linder and Lawrence S. Zacharias.

Main entry:

Linder, Marc.

Title & Author:

Of cabbages and Kings County : agriculture and the formation of modern Brooklyn / Marc Linder and Lawrence S. Zacharias.

Publication:

Description:

x, 478 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-466) and index.
1. Introduction: Urban Removal of Agriculture -- pt. 1. The Rise and Fall of Kings County as Vegetable Capital of the United States. 2. Kings County Farms. 3. Competitiveness and the "Courageous Capitalist" 4. Labor Supply: Agricultural Workers and Labor Relations -- pt. 2. From Farms to Suburbs: The Real Estate Market-Induced Sellout and the Resistance. 5. Comparative Demographic and Economic Development in Brooklyn and Rural Kings County. 6. The Prehistory of the Conversion of Rural Kings County Farms into Suburban Real Estate. 7. Modernizers Thwarted: The Great Annexation Debate of 1873. 8. The Impact of Property Tax Laws on Deagriculturalization.

Summary:

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 American industrialization; could the agricultural base that preceded and surrounded the city have survived the onrush of residential real estate speculation with a bit of foresight and public policies that the politically outnumbered farmers could not have secured on their own?

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Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0877456704 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780877456704 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780877457145
087745714X

Subject:

Land use, Rural New York (State) New York History.
Urbanization New York (State) New York History.
Agriculture Economic aspects New York (State) New York History.
Farms New York (State) New York History.
Utilisation agricole du sol New York (État) New York Histoire.
Urbanisation New York (État) New York Histoire.
Agriculture Aspect économique New York (État) New York Histoire.
Exploitations agricoles New York (État) New York Histoire.
Agriculture Economic aspects.
Economic history.
Farms.
Land use, Rural.
Urbanization.
Landwirtschaft
Verstädterung
Landbouw.
Urbanisatie.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) History.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Economic conditions.
New York (State) New York.
New York (State) New York Brooklyn.
Brooklyn, NY

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Zacharias, Lawrence.

Of cabbages & kings County

Holdings:

Location: Library main 211618
Call No.: F129.B7 L6 1999
Status: Available

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