Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations, and Cultural Changes (Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture)

Conan, Michel [Editor]; Kress, W. John [Editor]; Ambrosoli, Mauro [Contributor]; Atasoy, Nurhan [Contributor]; del Tredici, Peter [Contributor]; El Faiz, Mohammed [Contributor]; Evans, Susan Toby [Contributor]; Hirschfeld, Yizhar [Contributor]; Kuitert, Wybe [Contributor]; Metailie, Georges [Contributor]; O'Malley, Therese [Contributor]; Onofre, Saul Alcantara [Contributor]; Subtelny, Maria [Contributor]; Touwaide, Alain [Contributor]; Varisco, Daniel Martin [Contributor]; Wolfson, Elliot R. [Contributor];

ISBN 10: 0884023273 / ISBN 13: 9780884023272

Published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations, and Cultural Changes (Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture)
• Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0884023273
• ISBN 13: 9780884023272
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 46 ounces

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Synopsis

From Roman times to the present, knowledge of plants and their cultivation have exerted a deep impact on cultural changes. This book highlights the religious, artistic, political, and economic consequences of horticultural pursuits.

Far from a mere trade, horticulture profoundly affected Jewish and Persian mystical poetry and caused deep changes in Ottoman arts. It contributed to economic and political changes in Judea, Al Andalus, Japan, Yuan China, early modern Mexico, Europe, and the United States. This book explores the roles of peasants, botanists, horticulturists, nurserymen and gentlemen collectors in these developments, and concludes with a reflection on the future of horticulture in the present context of widespread environmental devastation and ecological uncertainty.

About the Authors

Michel Conan is the former Director of Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks.

W. John Kress is Chairman of the Department of Botany at Smithsonian Institution.

Susan Toby Evans is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University.

Therese O’Malley is the former Associate Dean at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Elliot R. Wolfson is Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University.