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- W2188995438 abstract "It seems that individuals and indeed nations, including newly formed ones, may be better understood by considering their interests and pastimes. And if this is so, then their relationship with plants and no less with the landscape they inhabit provides particularly fertile ground to explore. That is a central contention, at least, of Andrea Wulf’s latest book, The founding gardeners, which builds on her immensely successful The brother gardeners (Heinemann, 2008) 1 by examining the fascination that plants, plant exchange, gardens, agriculture more broadly, and the expansion westwards perhaps inevitably held for modern America’s revolutionary founders. Through Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison, Wulf shows how successive presidents imposed their vision not only on their own properties (Mount Vernon, Peacefield, Monticello and Montpelier, respectively) but also on the wider natural landscape. At the same time Wulf links their endeavours back to the political sphere for which they are normally remembered, and reveals a surprising change in attitude by the time of the serious-minded Madison that even heralded an environmental concern for the natural world. Not commonly located in tales of advancing frontiers and wildernesses tamed, Madison’s thinking predates the usual start point for such debates in nineteenth-century American history (Thoreau, Marsh) and, Wulf argues, took its cue from Enlightenment science and economic rationality (Priestley, Ingenhousz, Davy and Malthus) rather than from romantic ideals of one kind or another. The founding gardeners approached their business, she explains, by experiment, by deploying natural history exchange networks and by fostering improvements in husbandry as well as by celebrating nature as an ornament in their beds and shrubberies. Drawing these and other threads together in a seminal lecture to the Albermarle Society in Charlottesville in 1818, Madison anticipated theories that place mankind in a complex natural system on which he depends, a system that must be conserved rather than just exploited. However, it is clear that beside their recreational and symbolic value, plants were for solidly practical use in the fledgling republic, and well these presidents knew it. Wulf shows how each president’s estate was no mere" @default.
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- W2188995438 title "ESSAY REVIEW PLANTS AND THE PRESIDENTS: A FOUNDING VISION FOR AMERICA" @default.
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