Roeding's Practical Planter's Guide
Author | : George Christian Roeding |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Fruit-culture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George Christian Roeding |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Fruit-culture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Suzanne B Riess |
Publisher | : Franklin Classics |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2018-10-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780342668267 |
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Author | : Courtney Fullilove |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2017-04-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 022645486X |
While there is enormous public interest in biodiversity, food sourcing, and sustainable agriculture, romantic attachments to heirloom seeds and family farms have provoked misleading fantasies of an unrecoverable agrarian past. The reality, as Courtney Fullilove shows, is that seeds are inherently political objects transformed by the ways they are gathered, preserved, distributed, regenerated, and improved. In The Profit of the Earth, Fullilove unearths the history of American agricultural development and of seeds as tools and talismans put in its service. Organized into three thematic parts, The Profit of the Earth is a narrative history of the collection, circulation, and preservation of seeds. Fullilove begins with the political economy of agricultural improvement, recovering the efforts of the US Patent Office and the nascent US Department of Agriculture to import seeds and cuttings for free distribution to American farmers. She then turns to immigrant agricultural knowledge, exploring how public and private institutions attempting to boost midwestern wheat yields drew on the resources of willing and unwilling settlers. Last, she explores the impact of these cereal monocultures on biocultural diversity, chronicling a fin-de-siècle Ohio pharmacist’s attempt to source Purple Coneflower from the diminishing prairie. Through these captivating narratives of improvisation, appropriation, and loss, Fullilove explores contradictions between ideologies of property rights and common use that persist in national and international development—ultimately challenging readers to rethink fantasies of global agriculture’s past and future.
Author | : Philip J. Pauly |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674026636 |
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 | : Philip J. Pauly |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780691092867 |
The early twentieth century, however, witnessed a new burst of public-oriented activity among biologists. Here Pauly chronicles such topics as the introduction of biology into high school curricula, the efforts of eugenicists to alter the "breeding" of Americans, and the influence of sexual biology on Americans' most private lives."--Jacket.
Author | : Jagdish Chandra Jha |
Publisher | : Indus Publishing |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9788173870378 |
Based Mainly On Archival Material, This Work Shows How The Tea Planters, The Colonial Government And The Local Government Combined To Exploit The Meek And Docile Non-Assamese Immigrant Labour In North-East India.
Author | : Jack Ralph Kloppenburg |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1988-06-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780822307563 |
Seeds for economically important crops are big business indeed. As large seed companies continue to improve their product in various ways, they make use of the original gene pools of these plants, often located in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. With increasing recognition that plant germplasm is an important raw material, highly charged international disputes have developed over the exchange and use of this material, adding another point of contention between poor nations and the manufacturing wealthier ones. Twenty experts from several nations, representing both the natural and social sciences, consider the historical background, the issue of patent rights as applied to plant germplasm, the nature of global genetic interdependence, the internationalization of the seed industry, the implications of biotechnology on genetic resources, the Third World attitude toward the debate, and the viewpoints of the International Agricultural Research Centers.