The Tropical Turn

Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean

Sureshkumar Muthukumaran (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39084-3 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	21.03.2023
Zusatzinfo	27 b-w illustrations, 10 maps
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
	Technik ► Lebensmitteltechnologie
ISBN-10	0-520-39084-9 / 0520390849
ISBN-13	978-0-520-39084-3 / 9780520390843
Zustand	Neuware