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The American chestnut : an environmental history / Donald Edward Davis.

By: Publisher: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: xiv, 368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0820360457
  • 9780820360454
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Ebook version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 634.9/724 23
LOC classification:
  • SD397 .A48 D38 2021
Contents:
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.
Summary: "'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 attention to the importation of chestnut blight and the tree's decline as a dominant species, the author also evaluates efforts to restore the American chestnut to its former place in the eastern deciduous forest, including modern attempts to genetically modify the species."-- Amazon.ca

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"'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 attention to the importation of chestnut blight and the tree's decline as a dominant species, the author also evaluates efforts to restore the American chestnut to its former place in the eastern deciduous forest, including modern attempts to genetically modify the species."-- Amazon.ca

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