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Autore: |
Amato Joseph Anthony
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Titolo: |
The great Jerusalem artichoke circus : the buying and selling of the rural American dream / / Joseph A. Amato ; foreword by Paul Gruchow
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Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1993 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
Disciplina: | 338.10973 |
381/.41524/0973 | |
Soggetto topico: | Horticultural products industry - United States |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-242) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Altri titoli varianti: | Buying and selling of the rural American dream |
Titolo autorizzato: | The great Jerusalem artichoke circus ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8166-8547-9 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910807268903321 |
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