Download or read book A Cultural History of Plants written by D. J. Mabberley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Cultural History of Plants presents a global exploration of how plants have shaped human culture. Covering the last 12,000 years, it is the definitive history of how we have cultivated, traded, classified, and altered plants and how, in turn, plants have influenced our ideas of luxury and wealth, health and well-being, art and architecture"--