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| Title | The profit of the earth: the global seeds of American agriculture |
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| Creators | Fullilove Courtney |
| Collection | Электронные книги зарубежных издательств ; Общая коллекция |
| Subjects | Seeds — History ; Seeds — Harvesting — History ; Plant introduction — History ; Seed industry and trade — History ; Wheat — Breeding — History ; Plant diversity conservation — History ; Plant diversity conservation. ; Plant introduction. ; Seed industry and trade. ; Seeds. ; Seeds — Harvesting. ; Wheat — Breeding. ; EBSCO eBooks |
| Document type | Other |
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| Language | English |
| Rights | Доступ по паролю из сети Интернет (чтение, печать, копирование) |
| Record key | ocn980875079 |
| Record create date | 4/3/2017 |
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- Contents
- Prologue: In the Field
- Field Notes. “Green Revolutions”: Hunting Turkey Wheat
- Part 1. Collection: The Political Culture of Seeds
- 1. The Museum of Seeds
- 2. Seed Sharing in the Patent Office
- 3. Failures of Tea Cultivation in the American South
- Field Notes. “Local Knowledge”: What the Pastoralist Knew
- Part 2. Migration: Wheat Culture and Immigrant Agricultural Knowledge
- 4. For Amber Waves of Grain
- 5. Spacious Skies and Economies of Scale
- Field Notes. “Indigenous Knowledge”: Diversity and Endangerment
- Part 3. Preservation: Indigenous Plants and the Preservation of Biocultural Diversity
- 6. Elk’s Weed on the Prairie
- 7. The Allegory of the Cave in Kentucky
- 8. Writing on the Seed
- Epilogue: In the Gene Bank
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
