- Hardcover: 512 pages
- Publisher: University of Iowa Press; illustrated edition edition (Aug 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0877456704
- ISBN-13: 978-0877456704
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15 x 3.8 cm
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Reconstructs the history of a lost agricultural community. This study focuses on rural Kings County, the site of Brooklyn's tremendous expansion during the latter part of the 19th century. Drawing on archival resources, the book refocuses the history to uncover what was lost with the expansion.
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Required reading for Brooklyn history buffs
1 Jan 2001
Format:Paperback
I am a born-in-Brooklyn lifelong New Yorker and local history buff. I found this book engrossing and highly informative in areas (agriculture, farming and land use) most local histories ignore.
It is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand how the outer boroughs of New York developed.
The photos are a hoot - showing long-urban areas as utterly unrecognizable farmland.
The book's only shortcoming is the author's boilerplate Marxist analysis of how land and capital are used in a modern economy.
With that one caveat, I heartily recommend this weighty tome for anyone seriously interested in New York outer-borough history.
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