TY - BOOK ID - 135189839 TI - The American chestnut PY - 2021 SN - 0820360465 9780820360461 0820360457 9780820360454 PB - Athens DB - UniCat KW - American chestnut. KW - American chestnut KW - Châtaignier d'Amérique. KW - Châtaignier d'Amérique KW - History. KW - Histoire. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135189839 AB - "'The American Chestnut' tells the story of the American chestnut from Native American prehistory through the Civil War and the Great Depression. Davis documents the tree's impact on nineteenth-and early twentieth-century American life, including the decorative and culinary arts. While he pays much attention to the importation of chestnut blight and the tree's decline as a dominant species, the author also evaluates efforts to restore the American chestnut to its former place in the eastern deciduous forest, including modern attempts to genetically modify the species."-- ER -