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Brockport, New York: A Narrative Of That Place (And The Place Of This Narrative), Jonathan Mark Smith
Brockport, New York: A Narrative Of That Place (And The Place Of This Narrative), Jonathan Mark Smith
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This historical geography of Brockport, New York covers the period between the initial settlement of the region in 1806 and the onset of industrial decline in 1882. As a study in landscape and community change it links shifting trade networks, ecological foundations, social institutions and life-worlds in a historical narrative. Alterations in social structure, spatial division and definition, and landscape form and meaning are emphasized. The community is shown to have moved from a state of moral community and economic individualism to a state of moral individualism and economic community. Some specific topics discussed are frontier migrations, pioneering, development, mercantilism, …