Author: Jenny Marsh ParkerPublisher: Rochester, N.Y. : Scrantom, Wetmore
ISBN:
Category : Art museums
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Rochester
Author: Jenny Marsh ParkerPublisher: Rochester, N.Y. : Scrantom, Wetmore
ISBN:
Category : Art museums
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
The Genesee
Author: Henry W. CluneAn Agricultural History of the Genesee Valley, 1790-1860
Author: Neil Adams McNallPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512818038
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
The Empire State
Author: Milton Martin KleinPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801489914
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
Readers from the Big Apple to Buffalo and beyond will find "The Empire State"--which provides equal coverage to "upstate" and "downstate" events and people--satisfying and informative reading. A rich resource, it chronicles the state through centuries of change.
The Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association
Author: The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
Author: Richard Henry GreenePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
History of the Town of Rochester, New Hampshire, from 1722 to 1890
Author: Franklin McDuffeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association
Author: New York State Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Bibliography of New York Colonial History
Author: Charles Allcott FlaggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Roots of Flower City
Author: Camden BurdPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501777939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
In The Roots of Flower City, Camden Burd explores the economic and ecological significance of Rochester plant nurserymen over the course of the nineteenth century. As the first boomtown in the United States, Rochester was an embodiment of nineteenth-century market economies and social reform movements. Connected to the eastern seaboard by the Erie Canal, the city's unique economic, cultural, and environmental conditions fostered and sustained a vast and influential commercial plant nursery industry that attracted the nation's most prominent horticulturists and nurserymen. Rochester-area nurserymen built parks and rural cemeteries, landscaped homes and schools, and promoted horticultural pursuits regionally and nationally. As their influence grew, many of these horticultural entrepreneurs developed into the city's elite and played a leading role in shaping Rochester's economic, social, and physical landscape. Most significantly, nurserymen enthusiastically participated in the American imperial project, selling and distributing fruit, shade, and ornamental trees, shrubs, and flowers across the continent, transforming landscapes and ecologies far beyond New York. The Roots of Flower City tells the remarkable history of Rochester's outsized influence on the homes, estates, towns, and cities of nineteenth-century America as it weathered economic downturns and competition from other regions. One threat, however, proved to be too much to overcome. As Burd details, the spread of the destructive San Jose scale through the transcontinental plant trade prompted federal legislation that would lead to the decline of the Rochester plant nursery industry in the last decade of the nineteenth century, ending a sustained era of success and ecological impact.