7. Transplanting Liberty
Lafayette's American Garden
- Dan O'Brien PhD Research Fellow Associate Lecturer
Published Online: 13 AUG 2010
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324563.ch7
Copyright © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Book Title
Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone
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How to Cite
Aurrichio, L. (2010) Transplanting Liberty, in Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone (ed D. O'Brien), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444324563.ch7
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Oxford Brookes University, UK
Publication History
- Published Online: 13 AUG 2010
- Published Print: 24 SEP 2010
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Book Series Editors:
- Fritz Allhoff
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Western Michigan University, USA
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Print ISBN: 9781444330212
Online ISBN: 9781444324563
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- transplanting liberty - Lafayette's American Garden;
- 700-acre estate of La Grange, home of General Lafayette - French hero of the American Revolution;
- Lafayette, cultivating his own identity - America hailing his fields, woods and barns as models of self-sufficiency and good governance;
- Lafayette's American Plants - agriculture, bound up with political ideals from the very start;
- Washington's retirement from military affairs - and concomitant dedication to agricultural pursuits;
- Washington and Cincinnatus links - Lafayette, shipping plants to France for his own use;
- American specimen range, Osgeanon-don-ha - Lafayette wish to ship these varieties to France;
- English agrarian influences;
- transforming La Grange – Lafayette, devoting time to agricultural readings;
- political underpinnings of landscape - theme of tours, offered to foreign visitors visiting La Grange
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
Lafayette's American Plants
English Agrarian Influences
Transforming La Grange
Planting Politics at La Grange
Notes