The Great Meadow : farmers and the land in colonial Concord /
Brian Donahue
Bok · Engelsk · 2004 · History.
| Utgitt | New Haven : : Yale University Press, , ©2004.
|
|---|---|
| Omfang | xix, 311 pages, 8 pages of plates : : illustrations, maps (some color) ;
|
| Passer for | |
| Opplysninger | Musketaquid : the native ecological system -- Mixed husbandry : the English ecological system -- The First Division and the common field system -- The Second Division -- Settling the East Quarter -- The ecological structure of colonial farming -- A town of limits -- Epilogue: Beyond the meadows.. - "The farmers of colonial New England have been widely accused of farming extensively, neglecting manure, wearing out their land, and moving on. But did they? And if so, when and why? Brian Donahue offers a history of the early farming practices of Concord, Massachusetts, and challenges the long-standing notion that colonial husbandry degraded the land. In fact, he argues, the Concord community of farmers achieved a remarkably successful and sustainable system of local production.". - "Employing precise geographical information system (GIS) mapping of land ownership and land use, Donahue describes how the land was settled and how mixed husbandry was developed in Concord. By reconstructing several farm neighborhoods and following them through many generations, he reveals a diverse sustainable farming system of tillage, orchards, pastures, hay meadows, and woodlots that required careful management of soil and water. Donahue concludes that ecological degradation came to Concord only later, when nineteenth-century economic and social forces undercut the environmental balance that earlier colonial farmers had nurtured."--Jacket.
|
| Emner | |
| Sjanger | |
| Geografisk emneord | |
| ISBN | 0300097514. - 0300123698. - 9780300097511. - 9780300123692
|