From Dismal Swamp to Smiling Farms : Food, Agriculture, and Change in the Holland Marsh

From Dismal Swamp to Smiling Farms Food, Agriculture, and Change in the Holland Marsh

"Driving through the Holland Marsh one is struck immediately by the black richness of its soil. This is some of the most profitable farmland in Canada. But the small agricultural preserve just north of Toronto is a canary in a coal mine. From Dismal Swamp to Smiling Farms recounts the transform...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Classens, Michael, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : UBC Press 2021.
Subjects:
Land use, Rural > Ontario > Holland Marsh > History.
Agriculture > Ontario > Holland Marsh > History.
Holland Marsh (Ont.) > History.
Electronic books.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009649794506719
Table of Contents:
  • The Production of Land, 14,000 BP-1925
  • The Production of Fields, 1925-1935
  • Crops, Markets, and the Production of Stability, 1935-1954
  • Agricultural Modernization, Ecological Contradiction, and the Production of Instability, 1954-1980
  • A Legacy of Contradictions: Crisis and the (Re)production of the Holland Marsh, 1980-Present
  • W(h)ither the Marsh?.

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