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Autore |
Amato Joseph Anthony |
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Titolo |
The great Jerusalem artichoke circus [[electronic resource] ] : the buying and selling of the rural American dream / / Joseph A. Amato ; foreword by Paul Gruchow |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1993 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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338.10973 |
381/.41524/0973 |
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Soggetti |
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Horticultural products industry - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-242) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Beckoning Plant; 1. A Country Prophet; 2. A Bulldozing Businessman; 3. Buyers and Sellers of Seed; 4. A Perfect Consultant; 5. What Made the Company Run; 6. Killing off the Goose That Laid the Golden Egg; 7. Folding up the Tent; 8. The County Attorney and His Investigator; 9. The Lost Covenant; Conclusion: The Planets Went Astray; Chronology; AEFS Organizational Structure; Notes; Sources; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In 1981, near the end of America's second post-World War II energy crisis, and at the onset of the nations most recent farm crisis, American Energy Farming Systems began to sell and distribute what it deemed a "providential plant" destined to be a new and saving crop- the Jerusalem Artichoke. This volume recounts this story of the bizarre intersection of evangelical Christianity, a mythical belief in the powers of a new crop, and the depression of the U.S. farm economy in the 1980's. |
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