Bees in America by Tammy Horn

Bees in America by Tammy Horn

"Queen Bee," "busy as a bee," and "the land of milk and honey" are expressions that permeate the language within American culture. Music, movies, art, advertising, poetry, children's books, and literature all incorporate the dynamic image of the tiny, industrious honey bee into our popular imagination. Honey bees -- and the values associated with them -- have influenced American values for four centuries. Bees and beekeepers have represented order and stability in a country without a national religion, political party, language, or family structure. Bees in America is an enlightening cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States. Tammy Horn, herself a beekeeper, offers a social and technological history from the colonial period, when the British first brought bees to the New World, to the present, when bees are being trained by the American military to detect bombs. Horn shows how the honey bee was one of the first symbols of colonization and how bees' societal structures shaped our ideals about work, family, community, and leisure. In turn, the Puritan work ethic was modeled after the beehive, and this model continues to influence American definitions of success. Still a powerful symbol today, the honey bee is both a source of income and a metaphor for America's place at the center of global advances in information and technology.

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

Tammy Horn teaches at Berea College. She learned beekeeping from her grandfather, who grew up hunting bee trees in eastern Kentucky.

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ISBN 13	9780813191638
ISBN 10	0813191637
Titel	Bees in America
Autor	Tammy Horn
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	The University Press of Kentucky
Erscheinungsjahr	2006-04-21
Seitenanzahl	352
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.