Of Cabbages and Kings County
Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn
Published on 1. December 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
484 pages
978-0-87745-714-5 (ISBN)
Description
A history of a lost agricultural community. For two centuries Kings County was a leading vegetable producer, then it was swallowed up by an expanding New York. This book questions whether urban sprawl was a necessary condition of industrialization or could Kings and counties like it have survived.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 photographs, 10 maps
Weight
456 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87745-714-5 (9780877457145)
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