A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (The Cultural Histories Series)

✍ Scribed by Jennifer Milam (editor)

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 257
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries covers the period from 1650 to 1800, a time of global exploration and the discovery of new species of plants and their potential uses. Trade routes were established which brought Europeans into direct contact with the plants and people of Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Americas. Foreign and exotic plants become objects of cultivation, collection, and display, whilst the applications of plants became central not only to naturalists, landowners, and gardeners but also to philosophers, artists, merchants, scientists, and rulers. As the Enlightenment took hold, the natural world became something to be grasped through reasoned understanding.

The six-volume set of the Cultural History of Plants presents the first comprehensive history of the uses and meanings of plants from prehistory to today. The themes covered in each volume 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.

Jennifer Milam is Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Art History, University of Newcastle, Australia.

A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries is the fourth volume in the six-volume set, A Cultural History of Plants, also available online as part of Bloomsbury Cultural History, a fully-searchable digital library (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
General Editors: Annette Giesecke, University of Delaware, USA, and David Mabberley, University of Oxford, UK.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Series Preface Annette Giesecke and David J. Mabberley
Introduction: Plants and Culture during the Enlightenment Jennifer Milam and Garritt Van Dyk
1 Plants as Staple Foods Jane Levi
2 Plants as Luxury Foods Garritt Van Dyk
3 Trade and Exploration Sarah Easterby-Smith
4 Plant Technology and Science Alexandra Cook
5 Plants and Medicine Clare Griffin
6 Plants in Culture Stephen Bending
7 Plants as Natural Ornaments Mark Laird
8 The Representation of Plants Ekaterina Heath and Jennifer Milam
Notes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

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