Fruits And Plains

Author : Philip J. Pauly
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674026636
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fruits and Plains written by Philip J. Pauly and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0520379268
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fruit from the Sands written by Robert N. Spengler and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1470 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book v.3. Rocky Mountain region and Great Plains. v.4. Statements by Director Powell and other officers of the U. S. Geological Survey. Consular reports. General report on irrigation in United States. Miscellaneous papers. [v.5] Irrigation in the United States. By R.J. Hinton... being a 2d ed. of Misc. doc. 15, 49th Cong. [2d sess written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on the Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susie Brooks
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781435855199
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plains Indians written by Susie Brooks and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the ancient history of the Native American tribes known as the Plains Indians.

Author : Edward James Wickson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The California Fruits and how to Grow Them written by Edward James Wickson and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Henry Maiden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus written by Joseph Henry Maiden and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plain and Pleasant Talk about Fruits, Flowers and Farming written by Henry Ward Beecher and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1859 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julia A. Jordan
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806185813
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plains Apache Ethnobotany written by Julia A. Jordan and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393321159
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wild Fruits written by Henry David Thoreau and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-03-06 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Edward James Wickson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Fruits and how to Grow Them written by Edward James Wickson and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: