Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovation, and Cultural Change - Couverture souple

 
9780884023272: Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovation, and Cultural Change
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0884023273 ISBN 13 : 9780884023272
Editeur : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, 2007

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.

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À propos des auteurs

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.

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Éditeur
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0884023273
ISBN 13 
9780884023272
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
288
Éditeur
Conan Michel, Kress W. John
Coordonnées du fabricant
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