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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
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Tammy Horn |
ISBN: | 0813191637 9780813191638 |
OCLC Number: | 67568176 |
Description: | xiv, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Part One: Hiving off from Europe -- Introduction -- Bees and New World colonialism -- Part Two: Establishing a new colony -- Bees and the Revolution -- Part Three: Swarming west during the nineteenth century -- Before bee space, 1801-1860 -- After bee space, 1860-1900 -- Part Four: Requeening a global hive -- Early twentieth century: industrialization, 1901-1949 -- Late twentieth century: globalization, 1950-2000 -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Dramatis personae. |
Responsibility: | Tammy Horn. |
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Builds a social history of the bee in America, beginning with the earliest colonists and ending with hyper-contemporary electronic hives and the Bee Genome Project.... A heroic book in its scope. - Salon.com ""Provides a wealth of worthy material about bees in America, from the use of the hive metaphor to justify colonization in the 1500s and 1600s to bees' role in pollinating the prairies and orchards that we now take for granted."" - Publishers Weekly ""From the honey producers of ancient times to today's military scouts, bees have always been at the center of history, and Tammy Horn's book gives an excellent overview of how and why."" - Invention & Technology ""You will love this book.... That honey bees helped shape America cannot be disputed. Here are many of the ways they worked their magic."" - Bee Culture Read more...


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