Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
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Category : Victory gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: United States. Extension Service
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Category : Vegetable gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 6

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Author: Iowa State College. Extension Service
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 5

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Author: National War Garden Commission
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ISBN: 9780243615056
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Languages : en
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Author: Thomas Robertson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108419763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399

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"World War II was the largest and most destructive conflict in human history. It was an existential struggle that pitted irreconcilable political systems and ideologies against one another across the globe in a decade of violence unlike any other. There is little doubt today that the United States had to engage in the fighting, especially after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The conflict was, in the words of historians Allan Millett and Williamson Murray, "a war to be won." As the world's largest industrial power, the United States put forth a supreme effort to produce the weapons, munitions, and military formations essential to achieving victory. When the war finally ended, the finale signaled by atomic mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, upwards of 60 million people had perished in the inferno. Of course, the human toll represented only part of the devastation; global environments also suffered greatly. The growth and devastation of the Second World War significantly changed American landscapes as well. The war created or significantly expanded a number of industries, put land to new uses, spurred urbanization, and left a legacy of pollution that would in time create a new term: Superfund site"--

Author: United States. War Food Administration
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Languages : en
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Author: Laura J. Lawson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520243439
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 383

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"The social history of American cities would not be complete without a full account of the rise of community open spaces. Lawson does exactly this by providing a compelling and poetic account of the history and making of urban gardens. Combining solid scholarship with engaging images of the gardens and stories of their makers, this book sheds new light on the value of urban open space. More important, it explains why community gardens need to stand alongside city parks as permanent open spaces. Essential reading for community developers and landscape architects as well as anyone who ventures outside, enthusiasm and shovel in hand, to improve their local environment.—Mark Francis, author of Urban Open Space and Village Homes "The definitive history of the past hundred years of America's experience with community gardens. A labor of love by a garden activist, the book appears at a most appropriate time—today our city dwellers and suburbanites are retreating onto carpets of passive open space tended by homeowner associations and lawn care outfits. Lawson thoughtfully analyzes the weaknesses of community gardens when used as a response to social crises and, by contrast, investigates community gardens as an alternative to today's managed care of open space. Her history clearly presents a way of community living that we can elect if we choose her wisdom."—Sam Bass Warner, Jr, author of To Dwell Is to Garden "An important book about how the urban gardening movement is transforming our landscape and reconnecting us to the land."—Alice Waters, Owner, Chez Panisse

Author: Arnold A. Offner
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804747745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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This book is a provocative and thoroughly documented reassessment of President Truman's profound influence on U.S. foreign policy and the Cold War. The author contends that Truman remained a parochial nationalist who lacked the vision and leadership to move the United States away from conflict and toward detente. Instead, he promoted an ideology and politics of Cold War confrontation that set the pattern for successor administrations."

Author: C. H. Middleton
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 9781845133719
Category : Vegetable gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 195

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- Rediscover the famous wartime gardening broadcasts by the original gardening media celebrity - Taps into the thriving market for books on allotments and growing your own produce; there are 300,000 allotments in the UK - WWII nostalgia books continue to be successful; Eating for Victory [978-1843172642] sold 12,000 copies - Recent BBC series Grow Your Own Veg was hugely popular with viewers - Perfect nostalgic impulse buy for xmas '08

Author: Stumpp & Walter Co. (New York, N.Y.)
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Category : Farm supplies
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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