Description: Tropical Turn : Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean, Paperback by Muthukumaran, Sureshkumar, ISBN 0520390849, ISBN-13 9780520390843, Brand New, Free shipping in the US From rice and cotton to citruses and cucumbers, this book chronicles the earliest histories of familiar tropical Asian crops in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean. 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 sub-tropical 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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Book Title: Tropical Turn : Agricultural Innovation in the Ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Topic: Asia / Southeast Asia, Agriculture / General, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), World
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2023
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Technology & Engineering, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Sureshkumar Muthukumaran
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
