Author: Marc Linder
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date: 1999-12
Size: 51.74 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Of Cabbages And Kings County

Book by Marc Linder, Of Cabbages And Kings County Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Of Cabbages And Kings County books, 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? The first part of the book reviews the county's Dutch American agricultural tradition, in particular its conversion after 1850 from extensive farming (e.g., wheat, corn) to intensive farming of market garden crops. The authors examine the growing competition between local farmers and their southern counterparts for a share of the huge New York City market, comparing farming conditions and factors such as labor and transportation. In the second part of the book, the authors turn their attention to the forces that eventually destroyed Kings County's farming--ranging from the political and ideological pressures to modernize the city's rural surroundings to unplanned, market-driven attempts to facilitate transportation for more affluent city dwellers to recreational outlets on Coney Island and, once transportation was at hand, to replace farms with residential housing for the city's congested population. Drawing on a vast range of archival sources, the authors refocus the history of Brooklyn to uncover what was lost with the expansion of the city. For today, as urban planners, ecologists, and agricultural developers reevaluate urban sprawl and the need for greenbelts or agricultural-urban balance, the lost opportunities of the past loom larger.

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Author: Ted Steinberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2002-05-09
Size: 55.22 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
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Down To Earth

Book by Ted Steinberg, Down To Earth Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Down To Earth books, An innovative and provocative new approach to understanding American history turns readers attention to nature as the primary force shaping the course of the United States.

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Author: Peter H. Judd
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date: 2004
Size: 80.33 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 603
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More Lasting Than Brass

Book by Peter H. Judd, More Lasting Than Brass Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download More Lasting Than Brass books, Peter Haring Judd draws on a treasure trove of letters, photographs, and genealogical records to present the rich and colorful stories of members of the Haring, Herring, Clark, Denton, Phelps, White, Griggs, and Judd families, placing the individuals within the context of the social, economic, and historical forces that shaped their lives, as well as the regions and places where they resided and worked. Judd follows the thread of the family's fortunes and misfortunes from people born under the British flag in New York City and the Hudson River Valley to their twentieth-century descendants in industrial Connecticut. The voices of these families reflect a wide range of experiences in a changing American landscape. Earlier generations participated in momentous events of the Revolution, were heirs of the early republic's expanding society and economy, and engaged in the northern campaign at Lake Ontario in the War of 1812. They were among the citizens who seized the opportunities afforded by access to former Indian lands in frontier New York and further west, and by a thriving commercial trade stimulated by steady improvements in transportation. Later generations carry the narrative to Minneapolis and then to Waterbury, Connecticut, where family members were part of the rise and fall of the once dynamic and bustling manufacturing center. More Lasting than Brass also tells a human story, one that reveals men and women responding to surroundings and circumstances, marrying, divorcing, raising families, coping with illnesses, choosing paths to pursue, completing ventures, or having them cut short by mortality. In this distinctive volume, Judd skillfully joins history and genealogy to re-create and illuminate the whole lives of individual family members against the backdrop of their times. Co-published with Newbury Street Press, imprint of the New England Historic Genealogical Society

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Author: Heather Rogers
Publisher: New Press, The
Release Date: 2013-03-05
Size: 62.65 MB
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Gone Tomorrow

Book by Heather Rogers, Gone Tomorrow Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Gone Tomorrow books, “A galvanizing exposé” of America’s trash problem from plastic in the ocean to “wasteful packaging, bogus recycling, and flawed landfills and incinerators” (Booklist, starred review). Eat a take-out meal, buy a pair of shoes, or read a newspaper, and you’re soon faced with a bewildering amount of garbage. The United States is the planet’s number-one producer of trash. Each American throws out 4.5 pounds daily. But garbage is also a global problem. Today, the Pacific Ocean contains six times more plastic waste than zooplankton. How did we end up with this much rubbish, and where does it all go? Journalist and filmmaker Heather Rogers answers these questions by taking readers on a grisly and fascinating tour through the underworld of garbage. Gone Tomorrow excavates the history of rubbish handling from the nineteenth century to the present, pinpointing the roots of today’s waste-addicted society. With a “lively authorial voice,” Rogers draws connections between modern industrial production, consumer culture, and our throwaway lifestyle (New York Press). She also investigates the politics of recycling and the export of trash to poor countries, while offering a potent argument for change. “A clear-thinking and peppery writer, Rogers presents a galvanizing exposé of how we became the planet’s trash monsters. . . . [Gone Tomorrow] details everything that is wrong with today’s wasteful packaging, bogus recycling, and flawed landfills and incinerators. . . . Rogers exhibits black-belt precision.” —Booklist, starred review

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Author: Nedda C. Allbray
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date: 2004
Size: 50.76 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Flatbush

Book by Nedda C. Allbray, Flatbush Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Flatbush books, The cultural and ethnic flavors of Flatbush, Brooklyn have changed over these many years, from seventeenth-century Dutch to eastern European and Jewish, and the present Caribbean influence. Over time, small, rich farms run by Patrician families gave way to the dignified garden homes of Victorian Flatbush when the economy could no longer support farming. Through annexation by Brooklyn, development of the railroad and trolleys (which inspired the name of baseball's famed Trolley Dodgers), and the drain of suburban flight, Flatbush residents actively sought to keep their town a place to call home.

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Author: Kimbley Olson Fakih
Publisher: Rr Bowker Llc
Release Date: 1992
Size: 20.98 MB
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Of Cabbages And Kings 2

Book by Kimbley Olson Fakih, Of Cabbages And Kings 2 Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Of Cabbages And Kings 2 books, Provides a selection of articles on a wide variety of subjects, stories, and poems from American magazines for children.

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Author: Christopher C. Sellers
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date: 2012-06-18
Size: 42.97 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Crabgrass Crucible

Book by Christopher C. Sellers, Crabgrass Crucible Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Crabgrass Crucible books, Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs--not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late nineteenth century, new suburbanites turned to taming the wildness of their surroundings. They cultivated a fondness for the natural world around them, and in the decades that followed, they became sensitized to potential threats. Sellers shows how the philosophy, science, and emotions that catalyzed the environmental movement sprang directly from suburbanites' lives and their ideas about nature, as well as the unique ecology of the neighborhoods in which they dwelt. Sellers focuses on the spreading edges of New York and Los Angeles over the middle of the twentieth century to create an intimate portrait of what it was like to live amid suburban nature. As suburbanites learned about their land, became aware of pollution, and saw the forests shrinking around them, the vulnerability of both their bodies and their homes became apparent. Worries crossed lines of class and race and necessitated new ways of thinking and acting, Sellers argues, concluding that suburb-dwellers, through the knowledge and politics they forged, deserve much of the credit for inventing modern environmentalism.

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Author: David Stradling
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date: 2010
Size: 52.91 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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The Nature Of New York

Book by David Stradling, The Nature Of New York Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download The Nature Of New York books, Presents an environmental history of New York State, from the first contact of the region's indigenous inhabitants with Europeans to the present day.

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Author: Lisa Sheridan
Publisher:
Release Date: 1955
Size: 23.12 MB
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Category : Photographers
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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From Cabbages To Kings

Book by Lisa Sheridan, From Cabbages To Kings Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download From Cabbages To Kings books,

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Release Date: 1999
Size: 26.44 MB
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Category : Community development, Urban
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City Limits

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