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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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Autore: Amato Joseph Anthony Visualizza persona
Titolo: The great Jerusalem artichoke circus [[electronic resource] ] : the buying and selling of the rural American dream / / Joseph A. Amato ; foreword by Paul Gruchow Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1993
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
Disciplina: 338.10973
381/.41524/0973
Soggetto topico: Horticultural products industry - United States
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8166-8547-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910457385603321
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