Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations, and Cultural Changes

Series: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection Volume: 28

Edited By: Michel Conan and W John Kress

278 pages, Col figs, tabs, illus

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks

Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations, and Cultural Changes

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ISBN: 9780884023272 Paperback Jul 2007 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1 week
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From Roman times to the present, knowledge of plants and their cultivation have exerted a deep impact on cultural changes. This book highlights the religious, artistic, political, and economic consequences of horticultural pursuits. Far from a mere trade, horticulture profoundly affected Jewish and Persian mystical poetry and caused deep changes in Ottoman arts. It contributed to economic and political changes in Judea, Al Andalus, Japan, Yuan China, early modern Mexico, Europe, and the United States. This book explores the roles of peasants, botanists, horticulturists, nurserymen and gentlemen collectors in these developments, and concludes with a reflection on the future of horticulture in the present context of widespread environmental devastation and ecological uncertainty.