Main entry:

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

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

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

Description:

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

Notes:
"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XXVIII, held at Dumbarton Oaks May 6-8, 2004"--Page opposite title page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Visionary rose : metaphorical application of horticultural practice in Persian culture / Maria Subtelny -- Art and sciences : private gardens and botany in the early Roman Empire / Alain Touwaide -- The rose in Jewish culture in medieval Spain / Elliot Wolfson -- Links between the Ottoman and the Western world on floriculture and gardening / Nurhan Atasoy -- Precious beauty : the aesthetic and economic value of Aztec gardens / Susan Toby Evans -- Perfume and power from the ancient near east to late antiquities / Yizhar Hirschfeld -- Horticultural changes and political upheavals in Middle-Age Andalusia / Mohammed El Faïz -- Cultural values and political change : cherry gardening in ancient Japan / Wybe Kuitert -- Grafting as an agricultural and cultural practice in ancient China / Georges Métailié -- The Chinampas before and after the conquest / Saúl Alcántara Onofre -- Conservation and diffusion of species diversity in northern Italy : peasant gardens of the Renaissance and after / Mauro Ambrosoli -- Horticultural utopianism in France in the late eighteenth century / Michael Conan -- From practice to theory : the emerging profession of landscape gardening in early nineteenth-century America / Therese O'Malley -- Turning over a new leaf : the impact of qât (Catha edulis) Yemeni horticulture / Daniel Martin Varisco -- The role of horticulture in a changing world / Peter del Tredici.

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780884023272
0884023273

Subject:

Ethnobotany Congresses.
Human-plant relationships Congresses.
Horticulture Social aspects Congresses.
Botanical gardens Social aspects Congresses.
Relations homme-plante Congrès.
Horticulture Aspect social Congrès.
Jardins botaniques Aspect social Congrès.
Ethnobotany.
Horticulture Social aspects.
Human-plant relationships.
Etnobotanik konferenser.
Hortikultur sociala aspekter konferenser.
Botaniska trädgårdar sociala aspekter konferenser.

Form/genre:

proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Conan, Michel, editor.
Kress, W. John, editor.
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (Series) ; 28.

Botanical progress, horticultural innovations and cultural changes

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252156
Call No.: GN476.73 .D86 2004
Status: Available