Of cabbages and Kings County
by Marc Linder
- ISBN
- 9781587293016
Of cabbages and Kings County is a environmental economics, green business book by Marc Linder.
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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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Of cabbages and Kings County is a Environmental Economics, Green Business, Natural Resources, NATURE, Agriculture book.
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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 ...
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Of cabbages and Kings County was written by Marc Linder.