Of cabbages and Kings County

By Marc Linder

Subjects: Green Business, Farms, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Urbanization, Rural Land use, Histoire, NATURE, Exploitations agricoles, Agriculture, Urbanisation, Environmental Economics, New York Times reviewed, Economic conditions, Aspect économique, Natural Resources, Urbanisatie, Economic aspects, Economic history, Landbouw, History, Utilisation agricole du sol

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