The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession

The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession
ISBN-10
1588345165
ISBN-13
9781588345165
Category
History
Pages
246
Language
English
Published
2015-05-26
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution
Author
Virginia Jenkins

Description

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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