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PUMPKIN: THE CURIOUS HISTORY OF AN AMERICAN ICON By Cindy Ott - Hardcover *VG+*
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- ISBN-10
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- Book Title
- Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon (Weyerhaeuser
- ISBN
- 9780295991955
- Subject Area
- Nature, Cooking
- Publication Name
- Pumpkin : the Curious History of an American Icon
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press
- Subject
- Plants / General, Specific Ingredients / Vegetables, History
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Series
- Weyerhaeuser Environmental Bks.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Item Weight
- 21.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most people around the world eat pumpkin throughout the year, North Americans reserve it for holiday pies and other desserts that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. They decorate their houses with pumpkins every autumn and welcome Halloween trick-or-treaters with elaborately carved jack-o'-lanterns. Towns hold annual pumpkin festivals featuring giant pumpkins and carving contests, even though few have any historic ties to the crop. In this fascinating cultural and natural history, Cindy Ott tells the story of the pumpkin. Beginning with the myth of the first Thanksgiving, she shows how Americans have used the pumpkin to fulfull their desire to maintain connections to nature and to the family farm of lore, and, ironically, how small farms and rural communities have been revitalized in the process. And while the pumpkin has inspired American myths and traditions, the pumpkin itself has changed because of the ways people have perceived, valued, and used it. Pumpkin is a smart and lively study of the deep meanings hidden in common things and their power to make profound changes in the world around us.
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Publisher
University of Washington Press
ISBN-10
029599195x
ISBN-13
9780295991955
eBay Product ID (ePID)
26038301617
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Pumpkin : the Curious History of an American Icon
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Plants / General, Specific Ingredients / Vegetables, History
Publication Year
2012
Series
Weyerhaeuser Environmental Bks.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Nature, Cooking
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2012-011199
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Web
Grade from
College Graduate Student
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Up
Reviews
"From pumpkin beer and pumpkin pie to the Headless Horseman in Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Linus's undying faith in the Great Pumpkin in the Peanuts comic strip, Cindy Ott cultivates the entire patch." - David Abrams , The Quivering Pen , October 2013, "Her analysis certainly leads to a deeper consideration of this simple vegetable and how it is that Americans may still consider the country a farming nation, although the number of farmers had declined dramatically. . ." - Rae Katherine Eighmey , Minnesota History, "Cindy Ott presents a fascinating study of America's darling squash. . . . Her thorough investigation of the renowned autumn icon takes a detailed look into American social and agricultural history." - Kelly Restuccia , OhRanger! , October 2012, "After smashing our illusions about the Pilgrims, Ott continues her pumpkin iconoclasm. . . . The pumpkin as symbol comes full circle." - Nina C. Ayoub , The Chronicle of Higher Education , October 2012, "A harvest of precise, wide-ranging research, Pumpkin traces the historical roots twining beneath the pumpkin patch and supporting modern farm-stand agriculture and the reinventing of agrarian myth." -John R. Stilgoe , Harvard University, "That Ott has done her homework on the topic is evident throughout. . . .there is a wealth of historical context in each chapter, including extensive work on Pilgrims, sectionalism in the early republic, market capitalism, and agricultural history." - Andrew Duffin , Environmental History , January 2014, "Cindy Ott digs deeply and creatively in furrowing a few familiar and many elusive sources in this major contribution to American agricultural and sociocultural history." - Michael Kammen , The Journal of American History, Vol. 100(1) , 2013, "From the symbolism of pumpkins in classical and medieval mythology, to locavores and harvest festivals, Ott's paean to pumpkins is important, entertaining, and enlightening." Warren Belasco, author of Food, the Key Concepts "An original, carefully researched, engagingly written, even playful and witty foray into the exploding field of food history by an up-and-coming star in the field. How appropriate that so delightful a vegetable has an equally delightful book to pay it tribute." from the Foreword by William Cronon, "There is much treasure to be mined from this engaging work of nonfiction, so carve out some reading time, and enjoy a pumpkin-tastic narrative." - Jan Johnson , The Columbian
Table of Content
Foreword Not by Bread Alone / William Cronon Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Corn, Beans, and Just Another Squash 10,000 B.C.E. to 1600 2. ?The Times Wherein Old Pompion Was a Saint? From Pumpkin Beer to Pumpkin Pie, 1600 to 1799 3. Thoreau Sits on a Pumpkin The Making of a Rural New England Icon, 1800 to 1860 4. ?Wonderfully Grand and Colossal? The Pumpkin and the Nation, 1861 to 1899 5. Jack-o?-Lantern Smiles Americans Celebrate the Fall Harvest with Pumpkins, 1900 to 1945 6. Atlantic Giants to Jack-Be-Littles The Changing Nature of Pumpkins, 1946 to the Present 7. Pulling Up a Pig Sty to Put in a Pumpkin Patch The Changing Nature of American Rural Economies, 1946 to the Present Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2012
Dewey Decimal
641.5
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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