Main entry:

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

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; [Cambridge] : 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"--Preliminary page.
In conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution Department of Botany, and the United States Botanical Garden.
"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XXVIII, held at Dumbarton Oaks, May 6-8, 2004"--P. facing t.p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. 1: Ancient linkages between culture, botany, and horticulture -- 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 -- Pt. 2: Linkages between Horticultural and political changes -- Perfume and power from the ancient near east to late antiquities / Yizhar Hirschfeld -- Horticultural changes and political upheavals in Middle-age Andalusia / Mohammed El Gaiz -- Cultural values and political change: cherry gardening in Ancient Japan / Wybe Kuitert -- Grafting as an agrictultural and cultural practice in Ancient China -- The Chinampas before and after the conquest / Saul Alcantara Onofre -- Pt. 3: Horticultural contributions to economic and cultural changes -- conservation and diffusion of species diversity in Northern Italy; Peasant gardens of the renaissance and after -- 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 Qat Yemeni Horticulture / Daniel Martin Varisco -- The role of Horticulture in a changing world.

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 (pbk.)
0884023273 (pbk.)

Subject:

Ethnobotany Congresses.
Human-plant relationships Congresses.
Horticulture Social aspects Congresses.
Botanical gardens Social aspects Congresses.
Ethnobotanique Congrès.
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.
Landscape architecture
Botanical progress
Horticultural innovation
plantkunde
botany
tuinbouw
horticulture
culturele verandering
cultural change
cultuur
culture
tuinieren
gardening
politiek
politics
geschiedenis
history
historische plaatsen
historic sites
gewassen
crops
innovaties
innovations
nieuwe producten
new products
economische botanie
economic botany
oude wereld
ancient world
economische verandering
economic change
Horticulture
Garden History
Tuinbouw
Tuinhistorie
Landscaping.

Form/genre:

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

Added entries:

Conan, Michel, editor.
Kress, W. John, editor.
Conan, Michel
Kress, W. John
Smithsonian Institution. Department of Botany.
United States Botanic Garden.

Holdings:

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