The Garden Politic
Download or Read eBook The Garden Politic PDF written by Mary Kuhn and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Mary Kuhn |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2023-02-07 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781479820153 |
ISBN-13 | : 1479820156 |
Rating | : 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Garden Politic by : Mary Kuhn
Book excerpt: "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"--