Maarten Timmer, Arie Dwarswaard

Van Windhandel Tot Wereldhandel

Canon Van de Bloembollen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edition marks the 150th anniversary of the Koninklijke Algemeene Vereeniging voor Bloembollencultuur (KAVB, Royal General Bulb Growers' Association). The bulbs sector in the Netherlands has a rich history. Canon van de bloembollen contains fifty stories on striking moments and developments in history of the bulb. Carolus Clusius, tulip speculation, three generations Krelage and the establishment of first (not royal) AVB - the organization that was so important for the industry and the interests for the bulb culture and trade - to other historical moments for the sector such as the establishment of the Hollandsch Bloembollenkweekers Genootschap, the start of the current cultivation, the establishment of the tribunal and the advance of the 'drogebloembollenveilingen'. A beautifully illustrated work, with many special images and documents from the national history of one of Hollands most characteristic (export) products.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2010
• Niederländisch
• Abmessung: 303mm x 235mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 864g
• ISBN-13: 9789061942801
• ISBN-10: 9061942802
• Artikelnr.: 28242184

Autorenporträt

Maarten Timmer (1942) is part of a Breezands bulb growers family. He studied in Wageningen and worked (1967) as a researcher and as the head of department at the 'Laboratorium voor Bloembollenonderzoek' (laboratory for bulb research) in Lisse. He became part of the ministry of agriculture as a consultant for the horticulture in Hoorn in 1981. After the abolition of this job in 1990, he became a consultant for agriculture in Noord-Holland (in Haarlem, also for the ministry of agriculture). After the abolition of that job in 1995, he was operative up to 2002 as a senior policy officer at a regional management of the ministry of agriculture. From birth and during its whole operative life Maarten Timmer has had much to do with bulbs: by means of research, education (manager), information (as a consultant he managed a regional public relations department) and by means of policy. Timmer studied the history of horticulture in general and bulb growing in particular. He has published several papers on this subject. Arie Dwarswaard (1962) works for the KAVB as a copy editor for the specialist journal BloembollenVisie. This magazine is published in Lisse with cooperation of the CNB (The Coöperatieve Nederlandse Bloembollencentrale, a professional, customer-oriented mediator in bulbs, tubers and perennials). He grew up in a bulb growers family and inherited his love for the profession. He has published many times on the history of the flower bulb in Holland.