The Garden Politic - Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-century America

"The Garden Politic shows how Americans in the nineteenth century used plants to understand their nation, mobilizing them for many different political ends, from abolition to private property. It also shows the importance of everyday gardening practices to broader environmental understandings, and suggests the lessons that this earlier period might offer our contemporary environmental imaginations"--

About the author

Mary Kuhn

Product details

• Authors: Mary Kuhn
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9781479820153
• ISBN: 978-1-4798-2015-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: America and the Long 19th Cent; America and the Long 19th Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous