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The nature of crops : how we came to eat the plants we do / Dr. John M. Warren, Director of Learning and Teaching in the Institute of Biological Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, UK.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Warren, John, 1962- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Food crops--History.
- Food crops.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 183 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : Boston, MA : CAB International, [2015]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Have you ever wondered why we eat wheat, rice, potatoes and cassava? Why we routinely domesticate foodstuffs with the power to kill us, or why we chose almonds over acorns? Answering all these questions and more in a readable and friendly style, this book takes you on a journey through our history with crop plants. Arranged into recurrent themes in plant domestication, this book documents the history and biology of over 50 crops, including cereals, spices, legumes, fruits and cash crops such as chocolate, tobacco and rubber.
- Contents:
- Wild things
- Learning to live with exotic sexual practices
- Storing up trouble
- The weird and wonderful
- Accidents of history
- Classic combinations and reoccurring themes
- Ownership and theft
- Fifty shades of green.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Warren, John, 1962- Nature of crops.
- ISBN:
- 9781780645100
- 1780645104
- OCLC:
- 908053094
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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