The Garden Politic: Global Plants And Botanical Nationalism In Nineteenth-Century America (America And The Long 19Th Century)

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The Garden Politic shows how Americans in the nineteenth century used plants to understand their nation, mobilizing them for many different political ends, from abolition to private property. It also shows the importance of everyday gardening practices to broader environmental understandings, and suggests the lessons that this earlier period might offer our contemporary environmental imaginations--