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Tables of Contents for Of Cabbages and Kings County
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Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: Urban Removal of Agriculture
1
18
PART ONE The Rise and Fall of Kings County as Vegetable Capital of the United States
Kings County Farms
19
33
Competitiveness and the ``Courageous Capitalist''
52
27
Labor Supply: Agricultural Workers and Labor Relations
79
30
PART TWO From Farms to Suburbs: The Real Estate Market-Induced Sellout and the Resistance
Comparative Demographic and Economic Development in Brooklyn and Rural Kings County
109
15
The Prehistory of the Conversion of Rural Kings County Farms into Suburban Real Estate
124
32
Modernizers Thwarted: The Great Annexation Debate of 1873
156
29
The Impact of Property Tax Laws on Deagriculturalization
185
17
Were All Kings County Farmers Descendants of the Original Dutch Settlers? The Farm-Tenure Structure
202
18
What Was the Dutch Farmers' Price? Profits, Taxes, Land Prices, and Incomes
220
25
Case Studies in Suburbanization
245
33
Conclusion: Is Urban Agriculture Oxymoronic?
278
23
Tables
301
36
Abbreviations
337
2
Notes
339
98
Bibliography
437
30
Index
467