Holland Flowering

Holland Flowering

How the Dutch Flower Industry Conquered the World

  • Author: Gebhardt, Andrew
  • Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
  • ISBN: 9789089646170
  • eISBN Pdf: 9789048522590
  • Place of publication:  Amsterdam , Netherlands
  • Year of digital publication: 2014
  • Month: November
  • Pages: 268
  • Language: English
Growing tulip bulbs on the moon, and a tulip shaped island in the North Sea. Frederick Ruysch's wunderkammer and contemporary bloemencorsos. A Dutch-Chinese billionaire, aka the Orchid King, recreates a 'Dutch' town in northeast China complete with a replica of Amsterdam's central station and the International Court of Justice. A retired grower recalls a life in flowers, from the Second World War to the European Union. Dutch development policies in Ethiopia today and its former civilizing mission in Java. Auctions, cooperatives, networking, commodity culture, Dutch masculinity, and globalization. These are some of the imaginaries, themes, curious details, and perspectives you will encounter in this book. All of them pivot around Dutch flower culture today and in the Dutch Golden Age, and directly or indirectly link to Aalsmeer's flower auction, the world's largest, located not far from Amsterdam.
  • Table of Contents
  • Holland Flowering
  • Early Dutch Horticulture
  • The Rise of Aalsmeer’s Horticultural Grower’s Cooperatives
  • The Dutch Flower Auction: Traders
  • Horticultural Aesthetics
  • Planet of Flowers
  • Afterword
  • Notes

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