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The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean

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Availability:In StockContributor:Sureshkumar MuthukumaranPublish date:2023-03-14Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520390843ISBN-10:520390849UPC:9780520390843Book Category:Business & Economics, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Industries, World, Agriculture & Food (see also Political ScienceBook Topic:Public PolicySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCTT5AMSAS
This book chronicles the earliest histories of familiar tropical Asian crops in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean, from rice and cotton to citruses and cucumbers. Drawing on archaeological materials and textual sources in over seven ancient languages, The Tropical Turn unravels the breathtaking anthropogenic peregrinations of these familiar crops from their homelands in tropical and subtropical Asia to the Middle East and the Mediterranean, showing the significant impact South Asia had on the ecologies, dietary habits, and cultural identities of peoples across the ancient world. In the process, Sureshkumar Muthukumaran offers a fresh narrative history of human connectivity across Afro-Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the late centuries BCE.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520390843ISBN-10:520390849UPC:9780520390843Book Category:Business & Economics, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Industries, World, Agriculture & Food (see also Political ScienceBook Topic:Public PolicySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCTT5AMSAS
Sureshkumar Muthukumaran is a historian of the ancient world. He is a Lecturer in History at the National University of Singapore and has previously taught at University College London and Yale-NUS College.
Publisher: University of California Press

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