Tammy Horn teaches in the English department at Berea College. She learned beekeeping from her grandfather, who grew up hunting bee trees in eastern Kentucky.
"A fascinating and very readable cultural history of bees and
beekeeping in the United States." -- Choice
"A scholarly, but readable, look at the influence of the honey bee
throughout America's history." -- Kentucky Monthly
"A useful book.... A comprehensive history of bees in America." --
Canadian Journal of History
"Ambitious.... Takes the reader deep into the American side of this
sprawling story." -- Books and Culture
"An effective blend of humor and serious scholarship.... It merits
wide readership." -- Southern Historian
"Bee folklore, science, and history recounted in a delightful book
full of anecdotes and facts which will spark admiration for this
sometimes overlooked part of our nation's agriculture." -- Times of
Acadiana
"Bees in America is a fabulous treatment of how the honey bee
shaped social, political, and economic attitudes duringcolonization
and beyond in America. The story is still a very important one
today." -- North Vernon Sun
"Bees in America is, at its most basic, a cultural history of not
just a small insect, but of a sports logo, commercials, art,
adages, and farming.... Full of enough oddball information (and
archival photography and artwork) that it'll keep you busy as a...
well, you know." -- Blue Ridge Business Journal
"Builds a social history of the bee in America, beginning with the
earliest colonists (honeybees aren't native to North America) and
ending with hyper-contemporary electronic hives and the Bee Genome
Project.... A heroic book in its scope." -- Salon.com
"Filled with piquant anecdotes about bees and their keepers, drawn
from a wide range of sources." -- Richard Schweid, author of The
Cockroach Papers and Consider the Eel
"From the honey producers of ancient times to today's military
scouts, bees have always been at the center of history, and Tammy
Horn's books gives an excellent overview of how and why." --
Invention & Technology
"Honey bees and man have traveled a long and perilous journey from
their tentative first flights in colonial America to the intensely
managed, politically volatile pollination fields of a modern,
fertile California. Horn traces the many paths of honey bee and
human interaction in America and weaves them together for a
colorful, intimate and in-depth tale that grandly encompasses keen
inventions, slavery, religion, war, economics, politics, and the
global market place, to produce the fabric of our American
experience for over 400 years." -- Kim Flottum, Editor,
BeeCulture
"Horn brilliantly creates a richly researched and wonderfully
written text. Even those who view bees with some degree of horror
will be pleasantly surprised." -- New York Resident
"Horn is at her sweetest when she works through the relevance of
bees in our literature, folklore, and music." -- Journal of
Appalachian Studies
"Horn shows the potential for cultural studies to reach out in new
directions&will appeal to non-specialist
audiences&entertaining and informative." -- Appalachian
Journal
"Horn's social history of bees and beekeeping in the United States
reveals how integral bees have been to the settlement and culture
of our country." -- Lexington Herald-Leader
"I... think it is great that Horn has written a book on beekeeping
history that will appeal to the general public, as well as
beekeepers. I know that U.S. beekeepers will be grateful that Tammy
Horn is sharing the story of their love affair with [the] honey bee
to the general population. I can't help but believe that after
reading Horn's book, more people will be stimulated to explore the
wonderful world of beekeeping! Bees in America is a welcome respite
from our fast-paced, technology-driven society." -- Joe Graham,
editor of American Bee Journal
"Integrates history, technology, sociology, economics, and politics
with this remarkable insect serving as the unifying concept." --
Buffalo News
"Introduces some big political ideas that are very much worth
knowing about.... Also full of the kind of rich detail that a
narrow focus, paradoxically, makes room for." -- Christian Science
Monitor
"Offers a cultural, social and technological history of beekeeping,
from the time the practice was introduced into the New World by the
British as a form of livelihood and sustenance to the present." --
Associated Press [Orangeburg (SC) Times and Democrat, Staten Island
(NY) Advance
"Provides a thorough social history of America, examining all
possible instances of honey bee imagery used in cultural contexts.
Well referenced. Readable and recommended for anyone who
appreciated off beat perspectives in social history." --
Northeastern Naturalist
"Shows how bees, since their arrival in America, have affected
people, like their impact on native peoples and their use by
colonists." -- Utah Historical Quarterly
"The honey bee isn't native to the U.S., but it's hard to imagine
the country without it. Horn...provides a wealth of worthy material
about bees in America, from the use of the hive metaphor to justify
colonization in the 1500s and 1600s, to bees' role in pollinating
the prairies and orchards that we now take for granted." --
Publishers Weekly
"This excellent example of the effects agriculture has on history
will be a welcome addition." -- Booklist
"Will most appeal to American history buffs, who may be surprised
to learn how bees, honey, and beekeepers figure in events,
prominent and obscure, that shaped our nation." -- Zoogoer
"You will love this book.... That honey bees helped shape America
cannot be disputed. Here are many of the ways they worked their
magic." -- Bee Culture
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