Cindy Ott

Pumpkin

The Curious History of an American Icon

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Produktbeschreibung

Cindy Ott is assistant professor of American studies at Saint Louis University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780295991955
• ISBN-10: 029599195X
• Artikelnr.: 35560875

Autorenporträt

Cindy Ott is assistant professor of American studies at Saint Louis University. Cindy Ott is assistant professor of American Studies at Saint Louis University.

Inhaltsangabe

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