The making of Dutch flower culture: Auctions, networks, and aesthetics

Centered around five inquiries, this thesis uses several concepts to analyze Dutch horticulture and FloraHolland Aalsmeer: moral economy, commodity, world system, networks, horticulture, aesthetics, masculinity, cooperative, and the market. It explores how Dutch horticulture was and is embedded in national planning, policy, infrastructure, and aesthetics, both in the early stages of Dutch horticulture in the seventeenth century, with its environment of an emerging consumer culture and commodities, and in the twentieth century, as contemporary auctions and horticulture developed in its myriad i... Mehr ...