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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Main Author: Classens, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : UBC Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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?.