Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations and Cultural Changes
Language: English
Published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2007
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- Softcover
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4to, 278 pp, extensively illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Card covers, an excellent second hand copy. Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XXVIII. Papers presented May - 6-8 2004.
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- Title
- Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations and Cultural Changes
- Author
- Conan, Michael and Kress, W John - Edited by
- Publisher
- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0884023273
- ISBN 13
- 9780884023272
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 1.8 kilograms
- Seller catalogs
- Botany, Gardening
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.
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About the Author
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.
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