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Author : Mark J. Plotkin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ethnobotany of Aublet's Histoire Des Plantes de la Guiane Françoise (1775) written by Mark J. Plotkin and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Londa Schiebinger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674043278
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Plants and Empire written by Londa Schiebinger and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plants seldom figure in the grand narratives of war, peace, or even everyday life yet they are often at the center of high intrigue. In the eighteenth century, epic scientific voyages were sponsored by European imperial powers to explore the natural riches of the New World, and uncover the botanical secrets of its people. Bioprospectors brought back medicines, luxuries, and staples for their king and country. Risking their lives to discover exotic plants, these daredevil explorers joined with their sponsors to create a global culture of botany. But some secrets were unearthed only to be lost again. In this moving account of the abuses of indigenous Caribbean people and African slaves, Schiebinger describes how slave women brewed the "peacock flower" into an abortifacient, to ensure that they would bear no children into oppression. Yet, impeded by trade winds of prevailing opinion, knowledge of West Indian abortifacients never flowed into Europe. A rich history of discovery and loss, Plants and Empire explores the movement, triumph, and extinction of knowledge in the course of encounters between Europeans and the Caribbean populations.
Author : Robert Voeks
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461408350
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)
Download or read book African Ethnobotany in the Americas written by Robert Voeks and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Ethnobotany in the Americas provides the first comprehensive examination of ethnobotanical knowledge and skills among the African Diaspora in the Americas. Leading scholars on the subject explore the complex relationship between plant use and meaning among the descendants of Africans in the New World. With the aid of archival and field research carried out in North America, South America, and the Caribbean, contributors explore the historical, environmental, and political-ecological factors that facilitated/hindered transatlantic ethnobotanical diffusion; the role of Africans as active agents of plant and plant knowledge transfer during the period of plantation slavery in the Americas; the significance of cultural resistance in refining and redefining plant-based traditions; the principal categories of plant use that resulted; the exchange of knowledge among Amerindian, European and other African peoples; and the changing significance of African-American ethnobotanical traditions in the 21st century. Bolstered by abundant visual content and contributions from renowned experts in the field, African Ethnobotany in the Americas is an invaluable resource for students, scientists, and researchers in the field of ethnobotany and African Diaspora studies.
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Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Checklist of the Plants of the Guiana Shield written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . includes the countries of Guyana and Surinam, French Guiana (a part of France) and the Venezuelan states of Amazonas, Bolivar, and Delta Amacuro. The checklist contains 257 vascular plant families with 13,367 species." -- from abstract p. [2].
Author : Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9780849326769
Total Pages : 874 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (267 download)
Download or read book CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names written by Umberto Quattrocchi and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 1999-11-23 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the origins and meanings of the names of genera and species of extant vascular plants, with the genera arranged alphabetically from D to L.
Author : Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482250640
Total Pages : 4038 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants written by Umberto Quattrocchi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 4038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written as a reference to be used within University, Departmental, Public, Institutional, Herbaria, and Arboreta libraries, this book provides the first starting point for better access to data on medicinal and poisonous plants. Following on the success of the author's CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names and the CRC World Dictionary of Grasses, the author provides the names of thousands of genera and species of economically important plants. It serves as an indispensable time-saving guide for all those involved with plants in medicine, food, and cultural practices as it draws on a tremendous range of primary and secondary sources. This authoritative lexicon is much more than a dictionary. It includes historical and linguistic information on botany and medicine throughout each volume.
Author : Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780849326776
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (267 download)
Download or read book CRC World Dictionary of Plant Nmaes written by Umberto Quattrocchi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1999-11-17 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the origins and meanings of the names of genera and species of extant vascular plants, with the genera arranged alphabetically from M to Q.
Author : Daniel F. Austin
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0203491882
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Florida Ethnobotany written by Daniel F. Austin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-11-29 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2005 Klinger Book Award Presented by The Society for Economic Botany. Florida Ethnobotany provides a cross-cultural examination of how the states native plants have been used by its various peoples. This compilation includes common names of plants in their historical sequence, weaving together what was formerly esoteri
Author : Janet Crane
Publisher : Oxford, England : Clio Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
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Download or read book French Guiana written by Janet Crane and published by Oxford, England : Clio Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French Guiana lies on the north coast of South America, with Suriname to the west and Brazil to the south and east. French occupation began in the early seventeenth century. After brief periods of Dutch, English and Portuguese rule, the territory was confirmed as French in 1817. The colony steadily declined, after a short period of prosperity in the 1850s as a result of the discovery of gold. French Guiana, including the notorious Devil's Island, was used as a penal colony until 1937, and the territory became an Overseas Department of France in 1946. This bibliography, containing some 500 entries, brings together, for the first time, the most important French and English publications concerning French Guiana.
Author : Linnean Society of London
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Total Pages : 718 pages
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Download or read book The Linnean written by Linnean Society of London and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 906 pages
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Download or read book Tropical Tree Seed Manual written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 822 pages
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Download or read book The Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature Relating to Vascular Plants for ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcello Pennacchio
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195370015
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Uses and Abuses of Plant-Derived Smoke written by Marcello Pennacchio and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plants provide the food, shelter, medicines, and biomass that underlie sustainable life. One of the earliest and often overlooked uses of plants is the production of smoke, dating to the time of early hominid species. Plant-derived smoke has had an enormous socio-economic impact throughout human history, being burned for medicinal and recreational purposes, magico-religious ceremonies, pest control, food preservation, and flavoring, perfumes, and incense.This illustrated global compendium documents and describes approximately 2,000 global uses for over 1,400 plant species. The Uses and Abuses of Plant-Derived Smoke is accessibly written and provides a wealth of information on human uses for smoke. Divided into nine main categories of use, the compendium lists plant-derived smoke's medicinal, historical, ceremonial, ritual and recreational uses. Plant use in the production of incense and to preserve and flavor foods and beverages is also included. Each entry includes full binomial names and family, an identification of the person who named the plant, as well as numerous references to other scholarly texts. Of particular interest will be plants such as Tobacco (Nicotiana tabaccum), Boswellia spp (frankincense), and Datura stramonium (smoked as a treatment for asthma all over the world), all of which are described in great detail.
Author : Dorothea Bedigian
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1040078818
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Sesame written by Dorothea Bedigian and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-10-14 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive review of sesame and its close relative, Sesame: the genus Sesamum covers ethnographic data, modern use, linguistic analysis of sesame names from around the world, market size, export and import data, geographical sources, use in the food and cosmetic industries, and much more. The book includes a historical review of the genus Sesamum that reveals its place in present-day traditions and cultivation in Africa and Asia. Expanding coverage from archaeological and anthropological literature from India, Mesopotamia, and Egypt, this ethnobotanical monograph draws on folk sources, reviews the phytochemistry of Sesamum, and presents extensive references.
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Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Agriculture Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set includes revised editions of some issues.
Author : United States National Museum
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Total Pages : 594 pages
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Download or read book Contributions from the United States National Herbarium written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ponnadurai Ramasami
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110710870
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Pharmaceutical Applications written by Ponnadurai Ramasami and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on "The Virtual Conference on Chemistry and its Applications (VCCA-2020) - Research and Innovations in Chemical Sciences: Paving the Way Forward" held in August 2020 and organized by the Computational Chemistry Group of the University of Mauritius. The chapters reflect a wide range of fundamental and applied research in the chemical sciences and interdisciplinary subjects.
