TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fullilove,Courtney
TI  - The profit of the earth: the global seeds of American agriculture 
SN  - 9780226455051
AV  - SB187 .P764 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Seeds
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Harvesting
KW  - Plant introduction
KW  - Seed industry and trade
KW  - Wheat
KW  - Breeding
KW  - Plant diversity conservation
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
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