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Plants, agriculture, and human society / William Norman Richardson, Thomas Stubbs ; [drawings by Fran Milner].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Reading, Massachusetts : W.A. Benjamin, c1978.Description: viii, 353 pages : Illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0805382151
  • 9780805382150
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • SB91 .R49
Contents:
Introduction -- Unit One. The merger of botany, anthropology, demography and economics -- Classification, structure and reproduction of the angiosperms -- Evolution, coevolution and the angiosperms -- Unit Two. Our agricultural beginnings -- Historical agriculture -- Unit Three. The seeds of civilization : Wheat, corn, rice and other grains -- Fibers, forestry products, and tobacco -- Fruits, roots and vegetables -- The increasingly important legumes and nuts -- The recent romances of sugar and latex -- The long romance of spices and perfumes -- Beverages -- Unit Four. Methods in ethnobotanical investigation -- Peasant markets -- Psychedelics, shamanism and healing -- Ethnic nutrition -- Unit Five. The green revolution -- Mechanized agriculture : Its econenergetics and environmental impacts -- Monoculture and the genetic future of major crops -- Mariculture : Seaweeds, phytoplankton and the myth of food from the sea -- Innovation in meeting world food demands -- Famine 1984? Nutritional problems in the developed and developing countries.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Books PSAU OLM Stockroom Deselected/Weeded out C 581.5 R39 1978 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available PSAU17933
Books PSAU OLM Circulation/Reserved C 581.5 R39 1978 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available PSAU17934

Includes bibliographical references.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Unit One. The merger of botany, anthropology, demography and economics -- Classification, structure and reproduction of the angiosperms -- Evolution, coevolution and the angiosperms -- Unit Two. Our agricultural beginnings -- Historical agriculture -- Unit Three. The seeds of civilization : Wheat, corn, rice and other grains -- Fibers, forestry products, and tobacco -- Fruits, roots and vegetables -- The increasingly important legumes and nuts -- The recent romances of sugar and latex -- The long romance of spices and perfumes -- Beverages -- Unit Four. Methods in ethnobotanical investigation -- Peasant markets -- Psychedelics, shamanism and healing -- Ethnic nutrition -- Unit Five. The green revolution -- Mechanized agriculture : Its econenergetics and environmental impacts -- Monoculture and the genetic future of major crops -- Mariculture : Seaweeds, phytoplankton and the myth of food from the sea -- Innovation in meeting world food demands -- Famine 1984? Nutritional problems in the developed and developing countries.

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