The profit of the earth : the global seeds of American agriculture / Courtney Fullilove.
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TextPublication details: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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- 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
- SB187 .P764 2017
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Prologue: in the field -- Field notes. "Green revolutions": hunting turkey wheat -- Collection: the political culture of seeds -- The museum of seeds -- Seed sharing in the Patent Office -- Failures of tea cultivation in the American South -- Field notes. "Local knowledge": what the pastoralist knew -- Migration: wheat culture and immigrant agricultural knowledge -- For amber waves of grain -- Spacious skies and economies of scale -- Field notes. "Indigenous knowledge": diversity and endangerment -- Preservation: indigenous plants and the preservation of biocultural diversity -- Elk's weed on the prairie -- The allegory of the cave in Kentucky -- Writing on the seed -- Epilogue: in the gene bank.
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