Of cabbages and Kings County
Subtitle: agriculture and the formation of modern Brooklyn
By: Marc Linder and Lawrence S. Zacharias.
Contributors: Zacharias, Lawrence.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Iowa City, Iowa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
Subjects: 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.; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- History.; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
Other titles: Of cabbages & kings County
Description: 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?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-466) and index.