[PDF.12gc] The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession

The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession

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 | #672771 in Books |  1994-04-17 |  1994-04-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.94 x.58 x5.99l,.99 | File type: PDF | 246 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Grass as the American Dream|By Barbara C. Fertig|Reading this history of lawns sent me back to Currier and Ives, where I found that, indeed, there was little grass and lots of chickens around the family homestead. This is a likeable rediscovery of how our need to conform to standardized appearances has shaped our markets and our vision of democracy.|4 of 4 people found the fo|From Publishers Weekly|In the 18th-century English landscape, a folly was an extravagant building or ruin. In the 20th-century American landscape, the folly had to be the lawn. Jenkins's account gets off to a slightly slow start as she follows the lawn from its

Lawns now blanket thirty million acres of the United States, but until the late nineteenth century few Americans had any desire for a front lawn, much less access to seeds for growing one. In her comprehensive history of this uniquely American obsession, Virginia Scott Jenkins traces the origin of the front lawn aesthetic, the development of the lawn-care industry, its environmental impact, and modern as well as historic alternatives to lawn mania.

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