Book ID: CBB758686907

The Tropical Turn: Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean (2023)

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Sureshkumar Muthukumaran (Author)


University of California Press
Publication date: 2023
Language: English


Publication Date: 2023
Physical Details: 320

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.

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Authors & Contributors
Amouretti, Marie-Claire
Broshi, Magen
Cancik-Kirschbaum, Eva
Coclanis, Peter A.
Comet, Georges
Elton, Hugh
Journals
Geographia antiqua
Agricultural History
Economic History Review
French History
History and Technology
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Brill
Oxford University Press
Pennsylvania State University Press
Publications de l'Université de Provence
University of New Mexico Press
University of Pennsylvania Press
Concepts
Agriculture
Tropical agriculture
Colonialism
Plantations
Cartography
Technology
People
Ptolemy, Claudius
Eratosthenes of Cyrene
Time Periods
Ancient
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
Places
Mediterranean region
Middle and Near East
Mesopotamia
Rome (Italy)
Africa
Caribbean
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