Fullilove, Courtney, <br/><br/>
The profit of the earth :  the global seeds of American agriculture / 
Courtney Fullilove. 
 - Chicago :  The University of Chicago Press,  (c)2017. 
 - 1 online resource. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226455051 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Seeds--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Seeds--Harvesting--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Plant introduction--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Seed industry and trade--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Wheat--Breeding--History--United States--19th century.<br/>Plant diversity conservation--History--United States--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>SB187  / .P764 2017