Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The New-York Farmer, and Horticultural Repository
Author: The New-York Farmer, and Horticultural Repository
Author: Freedom’s Gardener
Author: Myra B. Young ArmsteadPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479825239
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Unearths an unexpected bloom of liberty in an ex-slave's journal.
Freedom's Gardener
Author: Myra Beth Young ArmsteadPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814705103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
In 1793 James F. Brown was born a slave and in 1868 he died a free man. At age 34 he ran away from his native Maryland to spend the remainder of his life in upstate New York's Hudson Valley, where he was employed as a gardener by the wealthy, Dutch-descended Verplanck family on their estate in Fishkill Landing. Two years after his escape, he began a diary that he kept until two years before his death. In Freedom's Gardener, Myra B. Young Armstead uses seemingly small details from Brown's diaries--entries about weather, gardening, steamboat schedules, the Verplancks' social life, and other largely domestic matters--to construct a bigger story about the development of national citizenship in the United States in the years predating the Civil War. Brown's experience of upward mobility demonstrates the power of freedom as a legal state, the cultural meanings attached to free labour using horticulture as a particular example, and the effectiveness of the vibrant political and civic sphere characterizing the free, democratic practices begun in the Revolutionary period and carried into the young nation. In this first detailed historical study of Brown's diaries, Armstead thus utilizes Brown's life to more deeply illuminate the concept of freedom as it developed in the United States in the early national and antebellum years. That Brown, an African American and former slave, serves as such a case study underscores the potential of American citizenship during his lifetime.
An Encyclopædia of Agriculture
Author: John Claudius LoudonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1330
Book Description
List of the Agricultural Periodicals of the United States and Canada Published During the Century July 1810 to July 1910
Author: Emma Beatrice HawksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This list of agricultural periodicals of the United States and Canada does not represent a complete list.
Miscellaneous Publication
Author: Pioneers of American Landscape Design
Author: Charles A. BirnbaumPublisher: Department of Interior National Park Reservation Assistance
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Change in Agriculture
Author: Clarence H. DanhofPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674107700
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
American agriculture changed radically between 1820 and 1870. In turning slowly from subsistence to commercial farming, farmers on the average doubled the portion of their production places on the market, and thereby laid the foundations for today's highly productive agricultural industry. But the modern system was by no means inevitable. It evolved slowly through an intricate process in which innovative and imitative entrepreneurs were the key instruments.
Empire of Vines
Author: Erica HannickelPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812208900
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The lush, sun-drenched vineyards of California evoke a romantic, agrarian image of winemaking, though in reality the industry reflects American agribusiness at its most successful. Nonetheless, as author Erica Hannickel shows, this fantasy is deeply rooted in the history of grape cultivation in America. Empire of Vines traces the development of wine culture as grape growing expanded from New York to the Midwest before gaining ascendancy in California—a progression that illustrates viticulture's centrality to the nineteenth-century American projects of national expansion and the formation of a national culture. Empire of Vines details the ways would-be gentleman farmers, ambitious speculators, horticulturalists, and writers of all kinds deployed the animating myths of American wine culture, including the classical myth of Bacchus, the cult of terroir, and the fantasy of pastoral republicanism. Promoted by figures as varied as horticulturalist Andrew Jackson Downing, novelist Charles Chesnutt, railroad baron Leland Stanford, and Cincinnati land speculator Nicholas Longworth (known as the father of American wine), these myths naturalized claims to land for grape cultivation and legitimated national expansion. Vineyards were simultaneously lush and controlled, bearing fruit at once culturally refined and naturally robust, laying claim to both earthy authenticity and social pedigree. The history of wine culture thus reveals nineteenth-century Americans' fascination with the relationship between nature and culture.