The American chestnut an environmental history
"'The American Chestnut' tells the story of the American chestnut from Native American prehistory through the Civil War and the Great Depression. Davis documents the tree's impact on nineteenth-and early twentieth-century American life, including the decorative and culinary arts. While he pays much...
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Athens :
The University of Georgia Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Giving Character to the Landscape
- Pt. One Chestnuts on the Move
- ch. 1 The Evolutionary History of the Species
- pt. Two Chestnut Encounters
- ch. 2 The Seasonal Bounty of Nuts and Acorns
- ch. 3 Wherever There Are Mountains
- ch. 4 The Most Celebrated Hunting Grounds
- ch. 5 Cash Will Be Paid If Delivered Soon
- ch. 6 Placed There by a Quadruped or Bird
- ch. 7 Along All Prominent Thoroughfares
- pt. Three Chestnut Decline
- ch. 8 The Wonder and Admiration of All
- ch. 9 To Maintain the Balance of Nature
- ch. 10 Grandfather Had Lived in a Log
- ch. 11 A National Calamity
- pt. Four Chestnut Revival
- ch. 12 Genes for Blight Resistance
- Conclusion: The Giving Tree.
