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Author | : Philip J. Pauly |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674026636 |
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The engineering of plants has a long history on this continent. Fields, forests, orchards, and prairies are the result of repeated campaigns by amateurs, tradesmen, and scientists to introduce desirable plants, both American and foreign, while preventing growth of alien riff-raff. These horticulturists coaxed plants along in new environments and, through grafting and hybridizing, created new varieties. Over the last 250 years, their activities transformed the American landscape. "Horticulture" may bring to mind white-glove garden clubs and genteel lectures about growing better roses. But Philip J. Pauly wants us to think of horticulturalists as pioneer "biotechnologists," hacking their plants to create a landscape that reflects their ambitions and ideals. Those standards have shaped the look of suburban neighborhoods, city parks, and the "native" produce available in our supermarkets. In telling the histories of Concord grapes and Japanese cherry trees, the problem of the prairie and the war on the Medfly, Pauly hopes to provide a new understanding of not only how horticulture shaped the vegetation around us, but how it influenced our experiences of the native, the naturalized, and the alien--and how better to manage the landscapes around us.
Author | : Robert N. Spengler |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2020-09-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520379268 |
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"A comprehensive and entertaining historical and botanical review, providing an enjoyable and cognitive read.”—Nature The foods we eat have a deep and often surprising past. From almonds and apples to tea and rice, many foods that we consume today have histories that can be traced out of prehistoric Central Asia along the tracks of the Silk Road to kitchens in Europe, America, China, and elsewhere in East Asia. The exchange of goods, ideas, cultural practices, and genes along these ancient routes extends back five thousand years, and organized trade along the Silk Road dates to at least Han Dynasty China in the second century BC. Balancing a broad array of archaeological, botanical, and historical evidence, Fruit from the Sands presents the fascinating story of the origins and spread of agriculture across Inner Asia and into Europe and East Asia. Through the preserved remains of plants found in archaeological sites, Robert N. Spengler III identifies the regions where our most familiar crops were domesticated and follows their routes as people carried them around the world. With vivid examples, Fruit from the Sands explores how the foods we eat have shaped the course of human history and transformed cuisines all over the globe.
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on the Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1470 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Irrigation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Susie Brooks |
Publisher | : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2009-08-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781435855199 |
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Describes the ancient history of the Native American tribes known as the Plains Indians.
Author | : Edward James Wickson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Fruit-culture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joseph Henry Maiden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Eucalyptus |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2001-03-06 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780393321159 |
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Thoreau presents information about the "'unnoticed wild berry whose beauty annually lends a new charm to some wild walk, '" along with what "may be considered Thoreau's last will and testament, in which he protests our desecration of the landscape, reflects on the importance of preserving wild space 'for instruction and recreation, ' and envisions a new American scripture."--Jacket.
Author | : Henry Ward Beecher |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Library |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : |
Download Plain and Pleasant Talk about Fruits, Flowers and Farming Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Julia A. Jordan |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-10-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806185813 |
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One tribe’s traditional knowledge of plants, presented for the first time Residents of the Great Plains since the early 1500s, the Apache people were well acquainted with the native flora of the region. In Plains Apache Ethnobotany, Julia A. Jordan documents more than 110 plant species valued by the Plains Apache and preserves a wealth of detail concerning traditional Apache collection, preparation, and use of these plant species for food, medicine, ritual, and material culture. The traditional Apache economy centered on hunting, gathering, and trading with other tribes. Throughout their long history the Apache lived in or traveled to many different parts of the plains, gaining an intimate knowledge of a wide variety of plant resources. Part of this traditional knowledge, especially that pertaining to plants of Oklahoma, has been captured here by Jordan’s fieldwork, conducted with elders of the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma in the mid-1960s, a time when much traditional knowledge was being lost. Plains Apache Ethnobotany is the most comprehensive ethnobotanical study of a southern plains tribe. Handsomely illustrated, this book is a valuable resource for ethnobotanists, anthropologists, historians, and anyone interested in American Indian use of native plants.
Author | : Edward James Wickson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Fruit-culture |
ISBN | : |
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