The lawn : a history of an American obsession /

Lawns now blanket thirty million acres of the United States, but until the late nineteenth century few Americans had any desire for a front lawn, much less access to seeds for growing one. In her comprehensive history of this uniquely American obsession, Virginia Scott Jenkins traces the origin of t...

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Autor principal: Jenkins, Virginia Scott
Format: Llibre
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1994.
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245 1 4 |a The lawn :  |b a history of an American obsession /  |c Virginia Scott Jenkins. 
260 |a Washington, D.C. :  |b Smithsonian Institution Press,  |c c1994. 
300 |a x, 246 p., [16] p. of plates :  |b ill. ;  |c 23 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-237) and index. 
505 0 |a Pt. 1. Americans Adopt the Front-Lawn Aesthetic. 1. The Introduction of Lawns to America. 2. Garden Clubs, Golf, and the USDA. 3. Advertising the Front Lawn -- Pt. 2. The Democratization of the Lawn. 4. The Growth of the American Lawn-Care Industry. 5. Men, Women, and Front Lawns. 6. The War Between Man and Nature. 7. The Age of High-Tech Horticulture. 
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