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The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
Brian Donahue
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| #926171 in Books | 2007-06-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.76 x.74 x6.75l,1.25 | File type: PDF | 344 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A Well-Grounded Narrative of Colonial Subsistence|By Taylor rose|In The Great Meadow, Brian Donahue rethinks the agrarian history of colonial Concord, Massachusetts. Teased out of tax records and land deeds, anchored in soil science, and told succinctly through GIS maps, Donahue’s narrative depicts pre-nineteenth-century New England farming practices as sophisticated and||"I used The Great Meadow in my graduate seminar in American Environmental History last winter, and it was a great success. I think the book appealed to the students because it is so grounded in the real world of living on the land in colonial New England, and
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 an innovative, accessible, and authoritative 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 remarkabl...
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