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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Linder, Marc. Of cabbages and Kings County. Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, ©1999 (DLC) 98051779 (OCoLC)40397062 |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Marc Linder; Lawrence Zacharias |
ISBN: | 1587293013 9781587293016 |
OCLC Number: | 50416105 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 478 pages) : illustrations, map |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Urban Removal of Agriculture; Part One: 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; Part Two: From Farms to Subirbs: 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. |
Other Titles: | Of cabbages & kings County |
Responsibility: | Marc Linder and Lawrence S. Zacharias. |
Abstract:
Reconstructs the history of a lost agricultural community. This study focuses on rural Kings County, the site of Brooklyn's tremendous expansion during the latter part of the 19th century. Drawing on archival resources, the book refocuses the history to uncover what was lost with the expansion.
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- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
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- NATURE -- Natural Resources.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business.
- Agriculture -- Economic aspects.
- Economic history.
- Farms.
- Land use, Rural.
- Urbanization.
- New York (State) -- New York.
- New York (State) -- New York -- Brooklyn.
- Landbouw.
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