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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Required reading for Brooklyn history buffs,
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This review is from: Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn (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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Of Cabbages and Kings County: Agriculture and the Formation of Modern Brooklyn by Marc Linder (Hardcover - May 1999)
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