Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation

by TammyHorn (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $28.88

  In this enlightening cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States, Horn, herself a beekeeper, shows how the honey bee was one of the first symbols of colonization and how bees' societal structures have shaped our ideals about work, family, community, and leisure.

• New

  Hardcover
  2005

  $74.31

  This is a cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States. Tammy Horn, herself a beekeeper, offers a varied social and technological history from the colonial period, when the British first brought bees to the New World, to the present, when bees are being trained by the American military to detect bombs.