Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovation and Cultural Changes
Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovation and Cultural Changes

Author: Michel Conan

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780884023272

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This book highlights religious, artistic, political, and economic consequences of horticultural pursuits, exploring the roles of peasants, botanists, horticulturists, nurserymen, and gentlemen collectors in these developments, and offering a reflection on horticulture's future in the context of environmental devastation and ecological uncertainty.

Archaeological Thought in America
Archaeological Thought in America

Author: C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780521406437

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American archaeology today encompasses a huge range of approaches and draws eclectically on a multitude of academic disciplines. Until now, however, there has been no book seeking to separate the main strands and traditions of research and present a rounded picture of American archaeological thought in all its diversity. The seventeen essays in Archaeological Thought in America describe recent theoretical advances and present substantive interpretations of prehistoric data drawn from a variety of cultures and time-frames, including Mesoamerica, Central Asia, India and China. The contributors include many of the leading North American archaeologists of this generation.