Tropical Turn

Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction
1. The Historical Context
2. Wool from Trees: Cotton
3. The Golden Grain: Asiatic Rice
4. Persian "Apples": Citruses
5. Familiar but Foreign: Eastern Cucurbits
6. The Egyptian Bean: The Sacred Lotus
7. A Forgotten Tuber: Taro
8. Timber for God and King: Sissoo
9. How to Turn Tropical

References
Index

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• História da Ásia
• Paleontologia
• História geral e do mundo
• Comida e sociedade
• Botânica e ciências das plantas

world crop histories;dispersals;ancient crops;agricultural history;environmental archaeology;eastern Mediterranean;trade;india;native foods;spices;cultivars;south Asia;food preparation;apples;wheat;sorghum;millet;taro;Medieval Green Revolution