The Roots of Flower City: Horticulture, Empire, and the Remaking of Rochester, New York - Online

The Roots of Flower City: Horticulture, Empire, and the Remaking of Rochester, New York Online As the first boomtown in the United States, Rochester was an embodiment of the market revolution in the early United States. But when the Panic of 1837 struck the region, the economic foundations of the city collapsed. In the wake of collapse, a new group of horticulture reformers sought to reform the city, region, and their residents. By the middle of the decades of the nineteenth century, the city became home to a group of plant nurserymen and seed dealers whose transnational reach remade the North American landscape and transformed Rochester from the Flour City into the Flower City. Camden Burd, Ph.D. is a historian of nineteenth and twentieth-century US history at Clemson University. As a scholar, he is interested in the tangled histories of American capitalism and environmental change. He received his PhD from the University of Rochester in 2019. His first book, The Roots of Flower City: Horticulture, Empire, and the Remaking of Rochester, New York was published by Cornell University Press in Fall 2024. Registration required.