What Have Plants Ever Done for Us?
Western Civilization in Fifty Plants
Distributed for the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
272 pages
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50 halftones
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5 x 8 1/2
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© 2015
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
The Plants
Barley
Mandrake
Beets
Opium poppy
Brassicas
Cannabis
Bread Wheat
Broad bean
Alliums
Pea
Olive
Grape
Papyrus
Yew
Rose
Pines
Reeds
Oak
Apple
Pepper
Carrot
Woad
Citrus
Nutmeg
White mulberry
Tobacco
Tulip
Chilli
Guinine
Cocoa
Potato
Tomato
Coffee
Maize
Pineapple
Smooth meadow grass
Lycopods
Cotton
Sugar Cane
Coconut
Rice
Tea
Ragwort
Banana
Rubber
Sunflower
Oil palm
Soya
Corncockle
Thale cress
Notes
Further Reading
Index
The Plants
Barley
Mandrake
Beets
Opium poppy
Brassicas
Cannabis
Bread Wheat
Broad bean
Alliums
Pea
Olive
Grape
Papyrus
Yew
Rose
Pines
Reeds
Oak
Apple
Pepper
Carrot
Woad
Citrus
Nutmeg
White mulberry
Tobacco
Tulip
Chilli
Guinine
Cocoa
Potato
Tomato
Coffee
Maize
Pineapple
Smooth meadow grass
Lycopods
Cotton
Sugar Cane
Coconut
Rice
Tea
Ragwort
Banana
Rubber
Sunflower
Oil palm
Soya
Corncockle
Thale cress
Notes
Further Reading
Index
Review Quotes
Times (UK)
“Plant scientists such as Harris are a rare breed in Britain these days. Yet their work is as important as ever.”
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