Cindy Ott: Pumpkin | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780295993324 | Pumpkin | The Curious History of an American Icon | Cindy Ott | Buch

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Beschreibung

Cindy Ott is assistant professor of American studies at Saint Louis University.

Über den Autor

Cindy Ott is an associate professor of American Studies at Saint Louis University and the author of Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon (University of Washington Press, 2012). In addition to publishing articles in the fields of environmental history, food studies, visual and material culture, and history and memory, Cindy has organized exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution and the Museum of the Rockies, community development projects at Saint Louis University, and historic preservation projects the National Park Service. Cindy is the graphics and Gallery essay co-editor of Environmental History and a regular grant reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities, from which she was awarded a grant in 2006. She was a fellow at Harvard University's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History during the academic year 2013-2014 and a visiting researcher at Stanford University's Bill Lane Center of the American West in 2012. She is currently writing a book with the working title, "Biscuits and Buffalo: Squashing Myths about Food in Indian Country" about the history of food consumption and production on reservations in the American northern Plains. She is also working on an article about the Miss Indian America pageant, which took place in Sheridan, Wyoming from 1952 to 1983.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword | Not by Bread Alone / William Cronon

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Corn, Beans, and Just Another Squash | 10,000 B.C.E. to 1600

2. "The Times Wherein Old Pompion Was a Saint" | From Pumpkin Beer to Pumpkin Pie, 1600 to 1799

3. Thoreau Sits on a Pumpkin | The Making of a Rural New England Icon, 1800 to 1860

4. "Wonderfully Grand and Colossal" | The Pumpkin and the Nation, 1861 to 1899

5. Jack-o'-Lantern Smiles | Americans Celebrate the Fall Harvest with Pumpkins, 1900 to 1945

6. Atlantic Giants to Jack-Be-Littles | The Changing Nature of Pumpkins, 1946 to the Present

7. Pulling Up a Pig Sty to Put in a Pumpkin Patch | The Changing Nature of American Rural Economies, 1946 to the Present

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Fachbereich:	Forstwirtschaft & Fischerei
Genre:	Importe , Umwelt
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Ökologie
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780295993324
ISBN-10:	0295993324
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ott, Cindy
Hersteller:	University of Washington Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	231 x 130 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Cindy Ott
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.08.2013
Gewicht:	0,44 kg

Artikel-ID: 105992333

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Fachbereich:	Forstwirtschaft & Fischerei
Genre:	Importe , Umwelt
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Ökologie
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780295993324
ISBN-10:	0295993324
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ott, Cindy
Hersteller:	University of Washington Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	231 x 130 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Cindy Ott
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.08.2013
Gewicht:	0,44 kg