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.

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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.

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