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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Washington, D.C. :
Smithsonian Institution Press,
c1994.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Jenkins, Virginia Scott. | |
| 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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 the front lawn aesthetic, the development of the lawn-care industry, its environmental impact, and modern as well as historic alternatives to lawn mania. | ||
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