{"product_id":"americas-romance-with-the-english-thomas-j-mickey-9780821420355","title":"America's Romance with the English Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of \"the year's best gardening books\" by \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e (UK, Nov. 2014)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 1890s saw a revolution in advertising. Cheap paper, faster printing, rural mail delivery, railroad shipping, and chromolithography combined to pave the way for the first modern, mass-produced catalogs. The most prominent of these, reaching American households by the thousands, were seed and nursery catalogs with beautiful pictures of middle-class homes surrounded by sprawling lawns, exotic plants, and the latest garden accessories--in other words, the quintessential English-style garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerica's Romance with the English Garden\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of tastemakers and homemakers, of savvy businessmen and a growing American middle class eager to buy their products. It's also the story of the beginnings of the modern garden industry, which seduced the masses with its images and fixed the English garden in the mind of the American consumer. Seed and nursery catalogs delivered aspirational images to front doorsteps from California to Maine, and the English garden became the look of America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas J. Mickey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821420356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821420355\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.48h x 6.09w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/20\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2013 pg. 127\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/31\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2013","brand":"Thomas J. Mickey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994920091903,"sku":"9780821420355","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3e09321d-cbc2-4723-9522-f25bb7dff522.jpg?v=1683332955","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/americas-romance-with-the-english-thomas-j-mickey-9780821420355","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}