Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations, and Cultural Changes (Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture) [Paperback]

Michel Conan (Editor), W. John Kress (Editor), Mauro Ambrosoli (Contributor), Nurhan Atasoy (Contributor), Peter del Tredici (Contributor), Mohammed El Faiz (Contributor), Susan Toby Evans (Contributor), Yizhar Hirschfeld (Contributor), Wybe Kuitert (Contributor), Georges Metailie (Contributor), Therese O'Malley (Contributor), Saul Alcantara Onofre (Contributor), Maria Subtelny (Contributor), Alain Touwaide (Contributor), Daniel Martin Varisco (Contributor), Elliot R. Wolfson (Contributor)

Book Description

Series: Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture | Publication Date: June 30, 2007

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

Michel Conan is the former Director of Garden and Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks.

W. John Kress is Chairman of the Department of Botany at Smithsonian Institution.

Susan Toby Evans is Professor of Anthropology at The Pennsylvania State University.

Elliot R. Wolfson is Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (June 30, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0884023273
• ISBN-13: 978-0884023272
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 9.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,035,869 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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