The lawn : a history of an American obsession /
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 t...
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Washington, D.C. :
Smithsonian Institution Press,
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- Pt. 1. Americans Adopt the Front-Lawn Aesthetic. 1. The Introduction of Lawns to America. 2. Garden Clubs, Golf, and the USDA. 3. Advertising the Front Lawn
- Pt. 2. The Democratization of the Lawn. 4. The Growth of the American Lawn-Care Industry. 5. Men, Women, and Front Lawns. 6. The War Between Man and Nature. 7. The Age of High-Tech Horticulture.