Pumpkin - The Curious History of an American Icon

Informationen zum Autor Cindy Ott. Foreword by William Cronon Klappentext Cindy Ott is assistant professor of American studies at Saint Louis University.A lively study of the deep meanings hidden in common things and their power to make profound changes in the world around us Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword | Not by Bread Alone / William Cronon Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Corn, Beans, and Just Another Squash | 10,000 B.C.E. to 1600 2. "The Times Wherein Old Pompion Was a Saint" | From Pumpkin Beer to Pumpkin Pie, 1600 to 1799 3. Thoreau Sits on a Pumpkin | The Making of a Rural New England Icon, 1800 to 1860 4. "Wonderfully Grand and Colossal" | The Pumpkin and the Nation, 1861 to 1899 5. Jack-o'-Lantern Smiles | Americans Celebrate the Fall Harvest with Pumpkins, 1900 to 1945 6. Atlantic Giants to Jack-Be-Littles | The Changing Nature of Pumpkins, 1946 to the Present 7. Pulling Up a Pig Sty to Put in a Pumpkin Patch | The Changing Nature of American Rural Economies, 1946 to the Present Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Cindy Ott, Cindy/ William Cronon (FRW) Ott
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2012
• EAN: 9780295991955
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99195-5
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > International cuisine; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food