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
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9781587293016
Subjects: Environmental Economics; Green Business; Natural Resources; NATURE; Agriculture; Urbanization; Farms; Economic conditions; Rural Land use; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; History
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 A
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [437]-466) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: 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