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Seeds of change : six plants that transformed mankind / by Hobhouse, Henry.(CARDINAL)185523;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-368) and index.
Subjects: Crops; Plants and history.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Seeds of change : five plants that transformed mankind / by Hobhouse, Henry.(CARDINAL)185523;
Bibliography: pages 233-237.Quinine. Quinine and the white man's burden -- Sugar. Sugar and the slave trade -- Tea. Tea and the destruction of China -- Cotton. Cotton and the American South -- The potato. The potato, Ireland, and the United States.
Subjects: Plants and history.; Crops;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Seeds of change : five plants that transformed mankind / by Hobhouse, Henry.(CARDINAL)185523;
Bibliography: pages 233-237.
Subjects: Crops; Plants and history.; Quinine;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Plant City, its origin and history / by Bruton, Quintilla Geer,1907-1989.(CARDINAL)781421; Bailey, David E.,1917-(CARDINAL)781420;
Includes bibliographical references (page 6) and index.
Subjects: Family histories.; Biographies.;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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10 plants that shook the world / by Richardson, Gillian.(CARDINAL)777946; Rosen, Kim,1978-illustrator.(CARDINAL)607394;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-125) and index.1080LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Plants and history;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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50 plants that changed the courses of history / by Laws, Bill.(CARDINAL)327970;
A beautifully presented guide to the plants that have had the greatest impact on human civilization. Weaving together strands of economic, political, and industrial history, each entry is a fascinating look at the most influential plants known to mankind. -- P. [4] of cover.
Subjects: Plants and history.; Plants, Useful.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Fifty plants that changed the course of history / by Laws, Bill,author.(CARDINAL)327970;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Agave -- Onion -- Pineapple -- Bamboo -- Wild cabbage -- Tea -- Hemp -- Chili pepper -- Cinchona -- Sweet orange -- Coconut -- Coffee -- Cilantro -- Saffron -- Papyrus -- Foxglove -- Yam -- Cardamom -- Coca -- Eucalyptus -- Ferns -- Soybean -- Upland cotton -- Sunflower -- Rubber -- Barley -- Hop -- Indigo -- Sweet pea -- Lavender -- Crab apple -- White mulberry -- Nutmeg -- Tobacco -- Olive -- Rice -- Opium poppy -- Black pepper -- English oak -- Dog rose -- Sugar cane -- White willow -- Potato -- Cacao -- Common wheat -- Tulip -- Vanilla -- Wine grape -- Corn -- Ginger."[This] is a beautifully illustrated book that uncovers the fascinating stories of fifty plants originating in all corners of the globe. Each plant profiled has played a central role in human history and greatly affected our lifestyle, even today."--Page 4 of cover
Subjects: Plants and history.; Plants, Useful.;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 12
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Seven flowers and how they shaped our world / by Potter, Jennifer,1949-(CARDINAL)406080;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Lotus -- Lily -- Sunflower -- Opium poppy -- Rose -- Tulip -- Orchid.Drawing on sources both ancient and modern, and featuring lush full-color illustrations and gorgeous line art throughout, Potter examines our changing relationship with these potent plants and the effects they had on civilizations through the ages. The opium poppy, for example, returned to haunt its progenitors in the West, becoming the source of an enormously profitable drug trade in Asia. In the seventeenth century, the irrational exuberance of the Dutch for rare tulips led to a nationwide financial collapse. Potter also explores how different cultures came to view the same flowers in totally different lights. While Confucius saw virtue and modesty in his native orchids, the ancient Greeks saw only lust and sex. In the eye of each beholder, these are flowers of life and death; of purity and passion; of greed, envy and virtue; of hope and consolation; of the beauty that drives men wild. All seven demonstrate the enduring ability of flowers to speak metaphorically--if we could only decode what they have to say.
Subjects: Flowers.; Flowers; Plants and civilization.;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 13
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50 plants that changed the world / by Harris, Stephen,1966-author.(CARDINAL)469376;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- The plants. Barley ; Mandrake ; Beets ; Opium poppy ; Brassicas ; Cannabis ; Bread wheat ; Broad bean ; Alliums ; Pea ; Olive ; Grape ; Papyrus ; Yew ; Rose ; Pines ; Reeds ; Oak ; Apple ; Pepper ; Carrot ; Woad ; Citrus ; Nutmeg ; White mulberry ; Tobacco ; Tulip ; Chilli ; Quinine ; Cocoa ; Potato ; Tomato ; Coffee ; Maize ; Pineapple ; Smooth meadow grass ; Lycopods ; Cotton ; Sugar cane ; Coconut ; Rice ; Tea ; Ragwort ; Banana ; Rubber ; Sunflower ; Oil palm ; Soya ; Corncockle ; Thale cress.Have you ever stopped to think about how your morning cappuccino came to be? From the coffee bush that yielded the beans, to the grass for the cattle - or perhaps the soya - that produced the milk, plants are an indispensable part of our everyday life. Beginning with some of the earliest uses of plants, Stephen Harris takes us on an exciting journey through history, identifying fifty plants that have been key to the development of the western world, discussing trade, imperialism, politics, medicine, travel and chemistry along the way. There are plants here that have changed landscapes, fomented wars and fuelled slavery. Others have been the trigger for technological advances, expanded medical knowledge or simply made our lives more pleasant. Plants have provided paper and ink, chemicals that could kill or cure, vital sustenance and stimulants. Some, such as barley, have been staples from earliest times; others, such as oil palm, are newcomers to western industry. We remain dependent on plants for our food, our fuel and our medicines. As the wide-ranging and engaging stories in this beautifully illustrated book demonstrate, their effects on our lives continue to be profound and often unpredictable.
Subjects: Plants, Useful; Plants and civilization; Plants and history.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 7
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A forest journey : the role of trees in the fate of civilization / by Perlin, John,author.(CARDINAL)147854;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Ancient writers observed that forests always recede as civilizations develop and grow. The great Roman poet Ovid wrote that before civilization began, "even the pine tree stood on its own very hills" but when civilization took over, "the mountain oak, the pine were felled." This happened for a simple reason: trees have been the principal fuel and building material of every society over the millennia, from the time urban areas were settled until the middle of the nineteenth century. To this day trees still fulfill these roles for a good portion of the world's population. Without vast supplies of wood from forests, the great civilizations of Sumer, Assyria, Egypt, Crete, Greece, Rome, the Islamic World, Western Europe, and North America would have never emerged. Wood, in fact, is the unsung hero of the technological revolution that has brought us from a stone and bone culture to our present age. Until the ascendancy of fossil fuels, wood was the principal fuel and building material from the dawn of civilization. Its abundance or scarcity greatly shaped, as A Forest Journey ably relates, the culture, demographics, economy, internal and external politics and technology of successive societies over the millennia. The Forest Journey was originally published in 1989 and updated in 2005. The book's comprehensive coverage of the major role forests have played in human life -- told with grace, fluency, imagination, and humor -- gained it recognition as a Harvard Classic in Science and World History and as one of Harvard's "One Hundred Great Books." Others receiving the honor include such luminaries as Stephen Jay Gould and E.O. Wilson. This is a foundational conservation story that should not be lost in the archives. This new, updated and revised edition emphasizes the importance of forests in the fight against global warming and the urgency to protect what remains of the great trees and forests of the world."--
Subjects: Deforestation; Forests and forestry; Plants and civilization.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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