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Author Ziegler, Catherine, author

Title Favored flowers : culture and economy in a global system / Catherine Ziegler
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (306 pages) : illustrations
Series E-Duke books scholarly collection
Contents Tastes, traditions, and trade, 1870-1970 -- Favored flowers : growers and traders, 1870-1970 -- Fresh flowers : global flower growing, 1970-2005 -- State and structure : floriculture in a global system -- Cultivating the global garden : local growers in a global system -- Specialty and abundance : middlemen in a changing system -- Risk and relationships : middlemen strategies -- Self and signs : flower consumers
Summary Cultural history of the flower trade in New York City and the transformation of the cut-flower industry into a global commodity system
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Cut flower industry.
Cut flowers -- Social aspects -- New York Metropolitan Area
Cut flowers -- New York Metropolitan Area -- Marketing
Cut flower industry -- Social aspects -- New York Metropolitan Area
Consumers -- New York Metropolitan Area -- Attitudes
Advertising -- Cut flower industry -- New York Metropolitan Area
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Advertising -- Cut flower industry
Consumers -- Attitudes
Cut flower industry
Cut flowers -- Marketing
New York (State) -- New York Metropolitan Area
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822390015
0822390019