Pumpkin: The Curious History of an American Icon
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    • Just Another Squash: 12,000 BCE to 1600
    • From Pumpkin Beer to Pumpkin Pie: 1600 to 1799
    • The Making of a Rural New England Icon: 1800 to 1860
    • The Pumpkin and the Nation: 1861 to 1899
    • Americans Celebrate the Fall Harvest with Pumpkins: 1900 to 1945
    • The Changing Nature of Pumpkins: 1946 to the Present
    • The Changing Nature of American Rural Economies: 1946 to the Present
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Pumpkin in the News:

Listen to "Pumpkin Love: From Lattes to Beer" for an interview with Cindy on CBC radio Canada's Early Edition, aired Oct 21, 2013

Read "How Did Pumpkins Become Scary Halloween Staple?" an excerpt of Pumpkin in Parade magazine, Oct 23, 2013

Read Cindy explain the Pumpkin Latte craze in: Toronto's National Post; New York Post; and Salon

Read "Giant Pumpkins" by Cindy Ott on the Oxford University Press Blog

Read "Why Americans Go Crazy For Pumpkin And Pumpkin-Flavored Stuff" on the NPR blog, the Salt

Read "Biting into Me: Food's Role in Identity and Connection" on Maurice Tracy's HuffPost blog

Barnes and Noble Featured Book in fall 2013

Read the Foreword to Book:

"Not By Bread Alone"
By William Cronon  
 


Read an Excerpt from the Book:

Pumpkin: The Curious History 
of an American Icon

Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books

Pumpkin is a part of the series of Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books.  This series by the University of Washington Press explores human relationships with natural environments in all their variety and complexity. They seek to cast new light on the ways that natural systems affect human communities, the ways that people affect the environments of which they are a part, and the ways that different cultural conceptions of nature profoundly shape our sense of the world around us.

The Weyerhaeuser Environmental Book series is edited by William Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison.

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