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Favored flowers : culture and economy in a global system / Catherine Ziegler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ziegler, Catherine.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cut flower industry.
- Cut flowers--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York Metropolitan Area.
- Cut flowers.
- Cut flowers--New York (State)--New York Metropolitan Area--Marketing.
- Cut flower industry--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York Metropolitan Area.
- Consumers--New York (State)--New York Metropolitan Area--Attitudes.
- Consumers.
- Advertising--Cut flower industry--New York (State)--New York Metropolitan Area.
- Advertising.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (318 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Cultural history of the flower trade in New York City and the transformation of the cut-flower industry into a global commodity system.
- Contents:
- Tastes, traditions, and trade, 1870-1970
- Favored flowers : growers and traders, 1870-1970
- Fresh flowers : global flower growing, 1970-2005
- State and structure : floriculture in a global system
- Cultivating the global garden : local growers in a global system
- Specialty and abundance : middlemen in a changing system
- Risk and relationships : middlemen strategies
- Self and signs : flower consumers.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612923371
- 9781282923379
- 1282923374
- 9780822390015
- 0822390019
- OCLC:
- 226067962
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