A Cultural History Of Plants In The Early Modern Era

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A Cultural History of Plants

A Cultural History of Plants
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Publisher : A&C Black
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Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Plants by : Annette Giesecke

Download or read book A Cultural History of Plants written by Annette Giesecke and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Cultural History of Plants presents a global exploration of how plants have shaped human culture. Covering the last 12,000 years, it is the definitive history of how we have cultivated, traded, classified, and altered plants and how, in turn, plants have influenced our ideas of luxury and wealth, health and well-being, art and architecture. Chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The themes (and chapter titles) are: Plants as Staple Foods; Plants as Luxury Foods; Trade and Exploration; Plant Technology and Science; Plants and Medicine; Plants in Culture; Plants as Natural Ornaments; The Representation of Plants."--


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