{"product_id":"a-cultural-history-of-plants-annette-giesecke-9781474273596","title":"A Cultural History of Plants: Volumes 1-6","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Cultural History of Plants\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChapter 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe six volumes cover: 1 - Antiquity (10,000 BCE to 500 CE); 2 - Post-Classical Era (500 to 1400); 3 - Early Modern Era (1400 to 1650); 4 - the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1650 to 1800); 5 - the Nineteenth Century(1800 to 1920); 6 - Modern Era (1920 to the present). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe page extent for the pack is 1744pp. Each volume opens with Notes on Contributors and an Introduction and concludes with Notes, Bibliography, and an Index. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Cultural Histories Series\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Cultural History of Plants\u003c\/i\u003e is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Annette Giesecke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474273599\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474273596\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Other\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNot available to be shipped via Media Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Annette Giesecke","offers":[{"title":"Other","offer_id":46372532912383,"sku":"9781474273596","price":610.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2a18786c-59ed-4e1d-be42-12c6c14adc88.jpg?v=1732726214","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-cultural-history-of-plants-annette-giesecke-9781474273596","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}