| Description |
1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The museum of seeds -- Seed sharing in the patent office -- Failures of tea cultivation in the American South -- For amber waves of grain -- Spacious skies and economies of scale -- Elk's weed on the prairie -- The allegory of the cave in Kentucky -- Writing on the seed. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Seeds -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Seeds. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Seeds -- Harvesting -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Seeds -- Harvesting. |
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Plant introduction -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Seed industry and trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Plant introduction. |
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Wheat -- Breeding -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Seed industry and trade. |
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Plant diversity conservation -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Plant diversity conservation. |
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Wheat -- Breeding. |
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fullilove, Courtney. Profit of the earth. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017 9780226454863 (DLC) 2016041539 (OCoLC)958585740 |
| ISBN |
9780226455051 (electronic book) |
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022645505X (electronic book) |
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9780226454863 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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022645486X (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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