Cultivating famine: data, experimentation and food security, 1795–1848

Collecting seeds and specimens was an integral aspect of botany and natural history in the eighteenth century. Historians have until recently paid less attention to the importance of collecting, trading and compiling knowledge of their cultivation, but knowing how to grow and maintain plants free fr...

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Main Author: Lidwell-Durnin, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2020