Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations, and Cultural Changes
edited by Michel Conan and W. John Kress contributions by Georges Metailie, Therese O'Malley, Saul Alcantara Onofre, Maria Subtelny, Alain Touwaide, Daniel Martin Varisco, Elliot R. Wolfson, Mauro Ambrosoli, Nurhan Atasoy, Peter del Tredici, Mohammed El Faiz, Susan Toby Evans, Yizhar Hirschfeld and Wybe Kuitert
Harvard University Press, 2007 Paper: 978-0-88402-327-2 Library of Congress Classification GN476.73.D86 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 581.63
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ABOUT THIS BOOK 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Michel Conan (Dumbarton Oaks) and John W. Kress (Smithsonian Institution Department of Botany): A
Historical View of Relationships Between Humans and Plants,
Part I: Ancient Linkages between Culture, Botany, and Horticulture
Sydney H. Aufr¿re (Universit¿ Paul Val¿ry, Montpellier III) The Vegetable Universe of Ancient Egypt, its
Symbiosis and Religious Reinterpretation
Maria Subtelny (University of Toronto) Visionary Rose: Metaphorical Application of Horticultural Practice in
Persian Culture
Alain Touwaide (Smithsonian Institution Department of Botany) Art and Sciences. Private gardens and botany in
the early Roman Empire
Elliot Wolfson, (New York University) The Rose in Jewish Culture in Medieval Spain
Nurhan Atasoy (Istanbul University) Links Between the Ottoman and the Western Worlds on Floriculture and
Gardening
Susan Toby Evans (The Pennsylvania State University) Precious Beauty: The Aesthetic and Economic Value of
Aztec Gardens
Part II: Linkages between Horticultural, and Political Changes
Yizhar Hirschfeld (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Perfume and Power from the Ancient Near East to Late
Antiquities
Mohammed El Fa¿z (Cedimes University, Morocco) Horticultural Changes and Political Upheavals in Middle-Age
Andalusia
Wybe Kuitert (Kyoto University of Art and Design) Political Change and Cultural Values of Plants: Origins of
Cherry Hybridization in Medieval Japan
Georges M¿taili¿ (Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris) Grafting as an Agricultural and Cultural Practice in Ancient
China
Sa¿l Alc¿ntara Onofre (Universidad de Mexico) The Chinampas Before and after the Encounter with Europe
Part III: Horticultural Contributions to Economic and Cultural Changes
Mauro Ambrosoli (Universit¿ degli Studi di Udine) The Contribution of Italian Peasants and Gardeners to the
Conservation and Propagation of Species Diversity: An Investigation for the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Michel Conan (Dumbarton Oaks) Reform Utopianism and Horticulture at the End of the 18th Century in France
Therese O'Malley (National Gallery of Art, Washington) From Practice to Theory: The Professionalization of
Landscape Design in Nineteenth-Century America
Daniel Martin Varisco (Hofstra University, New York) Turning over a New Leaf: The Impact of Qat in Yemeni
Horticulture
Peter del Tredici (Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University) Horticulture in a Changing World
Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations, and Cultural Changes
edited by Michel Conan and W. John Kress contributions by Georges Metailie, Therese O'Malley, Saul Alcantara Onofre, Maria Subtelny, Alain Touwaide, Daniel Martin Varisco, Elliot R. Wolfson, Mauro Ambrosoli, Nurhan Atasoy, Peter del Tredici, Mohammed El Faiz, Susan Toby Evans, Yizhar Hirschfeld and Wybe Kuitert
Harvard University Press, 2007 Paper: 978-0-88402-327-2
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Michel Conan (Dumbarton Oaks) and John W. Kress (Smithsonian Institution Department of Botany): A
Historical View of Relationships Between Humans and Plants,
Part I: Ancient Linkages between Culture, Botany, and Horticulture
Sydney H. Aufr¿re (Universit¿ Paul Val¿ry, Montpellier III) The Vegetable Universe of Ancient Egypt, its
Symbiosis and Religious Reinterpretation
Maria Subtelny (University of Toronto) Visionary Rose: Metaphorical Application of Horticultural Practice in
Persian Culture
Alain Touwaide (Smithsonian Institution Department of Botany) Art and Sciences. Private gardens and botany in
the early Roman Empire
Elliot Wolfson, (New York University) The Rose in Jewish Culture in Medieval Spain
Nurhan Atasoy (Istanbul University) Links Between the Ottoman and the Western Worlds on Floriculture and
Gardening
Susan Toby Evans (The Pennsylvania State University) Precious Beauty: The Aesthetic and Economic Value of
Aztec Gardens
Part II: Linkages between Horticultural, and Political Changes
Yizhar Hirschfeld (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Perfume and Power from the Ancient Near East to Late
Antiquities
Mohammed El Fa¿z (Cedimes University, Morocco) Horticultural Changes and Political Upheavals in Middle-Age
Andalusia
Wybe Kuitert (Kyoto University of Art and Design) Political Change and Cultural Values of Plants: Origins of
Cherry Hybridization in Medieval Japan
Georges M¿taili¿ (Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris) Grafting as an Agricultural and Cultural Practice in Ancient
China
Sa¿l Alc¿ntara Onofre (Universidad de Mexico) The Chinampas Before and after the Encounter with Europe
Part III: Horticultural Contributions to Economic and Cultural Changes
Mauro Ambrosoli (Universit¿ degli Studi di Udine) The Contribution of Italian Peasants and Gardeners to the
Conservation and Propagation of Species Diversity: An Investigation for the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Michel Conan (Dumbarton Oaks) Reform Utopianism and Horticulture at the End of the 18th Century in France
Therese O'Malley (National Gallery of Art, Washington) From Practice to Theory: The Professionalization of
Landscape Design in Nineteenth-Century America
Daniel Martin Varisco (Hofstra University, New York) Turning over a New Leaf: The Impact of Qat in Yemeni
Horticulture
Peter del Tredici (Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University) Horticulture in a Changing World