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The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord (2004)

door Brian Donahue

Reeksen: Yale Agrarian Studies (2007)

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An unprecedented look at how colonial farmers adapted to the challenges of New England's climate and soil and achieved a sustainable agricultural system 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 remarkably successful and sustainable system of local production. Donahue describes in precise detail--using among other tools an innovative historical geographical information system (GIS) method--how land was settled and how mixed husbandry was developed in Concord. By reconstructing several farm neighborhoods and following them through many generations, he reveals the care with which farmers managed the land, soil, and water. He 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.… (meer)
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Remarkable because Donahue's farming experience informs his research and analysis so deeply -- aided by GIS and other useful tools. A great read! ( )
  BobWoodbury | May 27, 2014 |
In The Great Meadow, Brian Donahue brings a fertile approach to one of the staple narratives in American Colonial history. In bringing together history, geography, digital mapping tools and a farmer’s knowledge of the land, he reinterprets the story of colonial agriculture as told by William Cronon Changes in the Land. Colonial Concord was not a world of scarcity and want, "much less one suffering from pronounced agricultural decline and environmental degradation" (p. 218). His convincing evidence suggests that a sustainable and environmentally well adapted system was established over several generations. At the heart of Donahue’s narrative lies a nostalgic vein. In asking why the Great Meadow disappeared, he also asks which knowledge and values we have lost on the way to a modern, capitalist economy. His book is a call for sustainability on a human scale, for slow and long-term solutions. The great strength of Donahue’s book is that he succeeds in weaving men and land together. He manages to show how the environment is intertwined with culture and how you can’t study the one without the other. ( )
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An unprecedented look at how colonial farmers adapted to the challenges of New England's climate and soil and achieved a sustainable agricultural system 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 remarkably successful and sustainable system of local production. Donahue describes in precise detail--using among other tools an innovative historical geographical information system (GIS) method--how land was settled and how mixed husbandry was developed in Concord. By reconstructing several farm neighborhoods and following them through many generations, he reveals the care with which farmers managed the land, soil, and water. He 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.

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