The profit of the earth : the global seeds of American agriculture /

The profit of the earth : the global seeds of American agriculture /

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Author / Creator:	Fullilove, Courtney, author.
Imprint:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017. ©2017
Description:	280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Seeds -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Seeds -- Harvesting -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Plant introduction -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Seed industry and trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Wheat -- Breeding -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Plant diversity conservation -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Plant diversity conservation. Plant introduction. Seed industry and trade. Seeds. Seeds -- Harvesting. Wheat -- Breeding. United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
Local Note:	University of Chicago Library's UCPress copy has original dust jacket.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11052191

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ISBN:	9780226454863 022645486X 9780226455051
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Organized into three thematic parts, The Profit of the Earth is a narrative history of the collection, circulation, and preservation of seeds. Fullilove begins with the political economy of agricultural improvement, recovering the efforts of the US Patent Office and the nascent US Department of Agriculture to import seeds and cuttings for free distribution to American farmers. She then turns to immigrant agricultural knowledge, exploring how public and private institutions attempting to boost midwestern wheat yields drew on the resources of willing and unwilling settlers. Last, she explores the impact of these cereal monocultures on biocultural diversity, chronicling a fin-de-siècle Ohio pharmacist's attempt to source Purple Coneflower from the diminishing prairie. Through these captivating narratives of improvisation, appropriation, and loss, Fullilove explores contradictions between ideologies of property rights and common use that persist in national and international development - ultimately challenging readers to rethink fantasies of global agriculture's past and future.--AMAZON.

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