Outstanding plants that have changed our life

The development of mankind cannot be imagined without plants: for millennia, they give us food, shelter, clothes, vehicles and medicines. Helen and William Bainum - historians of science and medicine, as well as passionate gardeners - trace the history of people with 80 key plants in this book over the past 12,000 years. They begin with the first cultivated cereals that have laid the foundations of the development of civilizations (wheat, rice, corn), devote the following section to the plants from which our material world - ships, housing, clothes, furniture (oak, linen, cotton) were created, then go to commodity Cultures that radically influenced the world economy, colonialism and post -colonialism, as well as on the usual models of consumption (tea, coffee, sugarcane) From pumpkin and beans that came from America, to African sorghum and Yams, from Brazilian rubber to Chinese bamboo - the geographical coverage of Grandiazen Book. This is an amazing publication illustrated by unique ancient drawings, engravings, lithographs and paintings from the collection of royal botanical gardens in London, will become a source of new knowledge and inspiration for everyone who is interested in both history, anthropology and cultural studies, as well as botany, and for everyone who who is everyone It is not indifferent to the beauty and diversity of the kingdom of the flora