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Informationen zum Autor Cindy Ott is an associate professor of American Studies at Saint Louis University and the author of Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon (University of Washington Press, 2012). In addition to publishing articles in the fields of environmental history, food studies, visual and material culture, and history and memory, Cindy has organized exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution and the Museum of the Rockies, community development projects at Saint Louis University, and historic preservation projects the National Park Service. Cindy is the graphics and Gallery essay co-editor of Environmental History and a regular grant reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities, from which she was awarded a grant in 2006. She was a fellow at Harvard University's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History during the academic year 2013-2014 and a visiting researcher at Stanford University's Bill Lane Center of the American West in 2012. She is currently writing a book with the working title, "Biscuits and Buffalo: Squashing Myths about Food in Indian Country" about the history of food consumption and production on reservations in the American northern Plains. She is also working on an article about the Miss Indian America pageant, which took place in Sheridan, Wyoming from 1952 to 1983. Klappentext Cindy Ott is assistant professor of American studies at Saint Louis University. "Her analysis certainly leads to a deeper consideration of this simple vegetable and how it is that Americans may still consider the country a farming nation, although the number of farmers had declined dramatically..." -Rae Katherine Eighmey, Minnesota History "After smashing our illusions about the Pilgrims, Ott continues her pumpkin iconoclasm. The pumpkin as symbol comes full circle." --Nina C. Ayoub, The Chronicle of Higher Education "An extraordinary scholar and storyteller, Cindy Ott tracks the culture that altered the very nature of the pumpkin--and in doing so, tells us a revealing story about ourselves. Not to be missed." --Philip J. Deloria, author of Playing Indian Zusammenfassung While many cultures eat pumpkin year round! North Americans reserve it for a set of beloved autumn rituals that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. This book shows how Americans have used the pumpkin to connect with nature and our agrarian roots - and! ironically! how this process has revitalized small farms and rural communities. 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 ...
