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Courtney Fullilove - The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture - 9780226454863 - V9780226454863
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The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture

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Description for The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, 43 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; PST; TV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226454863
SKU
V9780226454863
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-20

About Courtney Fullilove
Courtney Fullilove is assistant professor of history, environmental studies, and science in society at Wesleyan University, in Connecticut.

Reviews for The Profit of the Earth: The Global Seeds of American Agriculture
Fullilove organizes her work by seed processes
'Collection, ' 'Migration, ' and 'Preservation'
and adopts a dynamic, as opposed to static, stance for this sequence. She utilizes the US Patent Office and, later, the US Department of Agriculture to explore collection processes; discusses immigration and settlement behaviors of the Mennonites in late-19th-century Kansas for the circulation of seeds; and, finally, examines one ... Read more

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