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A review by leili_vee
The Agricultural Transition in New York State: Markets and Migration in Mid-nineteenth-century America by Donald Hugh Parkerson
3.0
2.5 because some of the brief history mentioned was interesting.
I skimmed through most of this book. It did not serve my purposes. It is not an agricultural book. It is more like a sociology book if you are only interested in a small sub-sample of the population it claims to cover.
Notes to the Author:
1.) Don’t title it agriculture if you mostly talk about the census records of a select few.
2.) You shouldn’t try to disprove racist stereotypes by using a minuscule portion of an all white, European sub-population and say that since it didn’t happen to them, it must not have happened to any ethnicities. Wtf.
3.) The contributions of enslaved and formerly enslaved people in this book was overlooked entirely. How can one purport to write about the nature of socioeconomic agricultural practices throughout the history of New York and completely ignore indigenous and enslaved contributions???
Sad. This book is not advertised well, and the author leaves out huge chunks of history, let alone the fact that it didn’t actually tell me anything I was looking for. Sad.
I skimmed through most of this book. It did not serve my purposes. It is not an agricultural book. It is more like a sociology book if you are only interested in a small sub-sample of the population it claims to cover.
Notes to the Author:
1.) Don’t title it agriculture if you mostly talk about the census records of a select few.
2.) You shouldn’t try to disprove racist stereotypes by using a minuscule portion of an all white, European sub-population and say that since it didn’t happen to them, it must not have happened to any ethnicities. Wtf.
3.) The contributions of enslaved and formerly enslaved people in this book was overlooked entirely. How can one purport to write about the nature of socioeconomic agricultural practices throughout the history of New York and completely ignore indigenous and enslaved contributions???
Sad. This book is not advertised well, and the author leaves out huge chunks of history, let alone the fact that it didn’t actually tell me anything I was looking for. Sad.