Botanical progress, horticultural innovation and cultural change / edited by Michel Conan and W. John Kress.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Conan, Michel.

Kress, W. John.

Smithsonian Institution. Department of Botany.

United States Botanic Garden.

Conference Name:

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (28th : 2004)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnobotany--Congresses.

Ethnobotany.

Human-plant relationships--Congresses.

Human-plant relationships.

Horticulture--Social aspects--Congresses.

Horticulture.

Botanical gardens--Social aspects--Congresses.

Botanical gardens.

Social aspects.

Horticulture--Social aspects.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

278 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Botanical progress, horticultural innovation and cultural changes

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; [Cambridge] : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2007.

Summary:

From Roman times to the present, knowledge of plants and their cultivation have exerted a deep impact on cultural changes. This book highlights the religious, artistic, political, and economic consequences of horticultural pursuits. Far from a mere trade, horticulture profoundly affected Jewish and Persian mystical poetry and caused deep changes in Ottoman arts. It contributed to economic and political changes in Judea, Al Andalus, Japan, Yuan China, early modern Mexico, Europe, and the United States. This book explores the roles of peasants, botanists, horticulturists, nurserymen and gentlemen collectors in these developments, and concludes with a reflection on the future of horticulture in the present context of widespread environmental devastation and ecological uncertainty.

Contents:

Michel Conan, W. John Kress Historical View of Relationships Between Humans and Plants 3

Part I Ancient Linkages between Culture, Botany, and Horticulture

/ Maria Subtelny Visionary Rose: Metaphorical Application of Horticultural Practice in Persian Culture 13

/ Alain Touwaide Art and Sciences: Private Gardens and Botany in the Early Roman Empire 37

/ Elliot Wolfson The Rose in Jewish Culture in Medieval Spain 51

/ Nurhan Atasoy Links Between the Ottoman and the Western World on Floriculture and Gardening 61

/ Susan Toby Evans Precious Beauty: The Aesthetic and Economic Value of Aztec Gardens 81

Part II Linkages between Horticultural and Political Changes

/ Yizhar Hirschfeld Perfume and Power from the Ancient Near East to Late Antiquities 102

/ Mohammed El Faiz Horticultural Changes and Political Upheavals in Middle-Age Andalusia 115

/ Wybe Kuitert Cultural Values and Political Change: Cherry Gardening in Ancient Japan 129

/ Georges Metailie Grafting as an Agricultural and Cultural Practice in Ancient China 147

/ Saul Alcantara Onofre The Chinampas Before and After the Conquest 159

Part III Horticultural Contributions to Economic and Cultural Changes

/ Mauro Ambrosoli Conservation and Diffusion of Species Diversity in Northern Italy: Peasant Gardens of the Renaissance and After 177

/ Michel Conan Horticultural Utopianism in France in the late Eighteenth Century 201

/ Therese O'Malley From Practice to Theory: The Emerging Profession of Landscape Gardening in Early Nineteenth-Century America 223

/ Daniel Martin Varisco Turning Over a New Leaf: The Impact of Qat (Catha edulis) Yemeni Horticulture 239

/ Peter del Tredici The Role of Horticulture in a Changing World 259.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XXVIII, held at Dumbarton Oaks, May 6-8, 2004"--P. preceding t.p.

In conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution Department of Botany, and the United States Botanical Garden.

ISBN:

9780884023272

0884023273

OCLC:

75087967