{"product_id":"understories-lesley-wylie-9781836245599","title":"Understories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnderstories: Plants and Culture in the American Tropics\u003c\/em\u003e establishes the central importance of plants to the histories and cultures of the extended tropical region stretching from the U.S. South to Argentina. Through close examination of a number of significant plants - cacao, mate, agave, the \u003cem\u003ehevea brasilensis\u003c\/em\u003e, kudzu, the breadfruit, soy, and the \u003cem\u003eceiba pentandra\u003c\/em\u003e, among others - this volume shows that vegetal life has played a fundamental role in shaping societies and in formulating cultural and environmental imaginaries in and beyond the region. Drawing on a wide range of cultural traditions and forms across literature, popular music, art, and film, the essays included in this volume transcend regional and linguistic boundaries to bring together multiple plant-centred histories or 'understories' - narratives that until now have been marginalized or gone unnoticed. Attending not only to the significant influence of humans on plants, but also of plants on humans, this book offers new understandings of how colonization, globalization, and power were, and continue to be, imbricated with nature in the American tropics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lesley Wylie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1836245599\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781836245599\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.57d","brand":"Lesley Wylie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49000485421311,"sku":"9781836245599","price":53.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/understories-lesley-wylie-9781836245599","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}