The profit of the earth the global seeds of American agriculture

The profit of the earth the global seeds of American agriculture

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fullilove, Courtney
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Subjects:
United States.
Seeds > United States > History > 19th century.
Seeds > Harvesting > United States > History > 19th century.
Plant introduction > United States > History > 19th century.
Seed industry and trade > United States > History > 19th century.
Wheat > Breeding > United States > History > 19th century.
Plant diversity conservation > United States > History > 19th century.
Plant diversity conservation.
Plant introduction.
Seed industry and trade.
Seeds.
Seeds > Harvesting.
Wheat > Breeding.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General
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History.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: in the field
  • Field notes. "Green revolutions": hunting turkey wheat
  • Collection: the political culture of seeds
  • The museum of seeds
  • Seed sharing in the Patent Office
  • Failures of tea cultivation in the American South
  • Field notes. "Local knowledge": what the pastoralist knew
  • Migration: wheat culture and immigrant agricultural knowledge
  • For amber waves of grain
  • Spacious skies and economies of scale
  • Field notes. "Indigenous knowledge": diversity and endangerment
  • Preservation: indigenous plants and the preservation of biocultural diversity
  • Elk's weed on the prairie
  • The allegory of the cave in Kentucky
  • Writing on the seed
  • Epilogue: in the gene bank.

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