Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Jennifer Milam is Pro Vice Chancellor and Professor of Art History at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her books include Women, Art and the Politics of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe (2003), Fragonard’s Playful Paintings (2007), Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art (2011), Beyond Chinoiserie (2018), and Making Ideas Visible (2022). Her next book addresses cosmopolitan ideals in garden spaces.A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries covers the period from 1650 to 1800, a time of global exploration and the discovery of new species of plants and their potential uses. Trade routes were established which brought Europeans into direct contact with the plants and people of Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Americas. Foreign and exotic plants become objects of cultivation, collection, and display, whilst the applications of plants became central not only to naturalists, landowners, and gardeners but also to philosophers, artists, merchants, scientists, and rulers. As the Enlightenment took hold, the natural world became something to be grasped through reasoned understanding.
The six-volume set of the Cultural History of Plants presents the first comprehensive history of the uses and meanings of plants from prehistory to today. The themes covered in each volume are plants as staple foods; plants as luxury foods; trade and exploration; plant technology and science; plants and medicine; plants in culture; plants as natural ornaments; the representation of plants.
Jennifer Milam is Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Art History, University of Newcastle, Australia.
A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries is the fourth volume in the six-volume set, A Cultural History of Plants, also available online as part of Bloomsbury Cultural History, a fully-searchable digital library (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
General Editors: Annette Giesecke, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and David Mabberley, University of Oxford, UK.
Series Preface
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Plants and Culture during the Enlightenment, Jennifer Milam and Garritt Van Dyk
1. Plants as Staple Foods, Jane Levi
2. Plants as Luxury Foods, Garritt Van Dyk
3. Trade & Exploration, Sarah Easterby-Smith
4. Plant Technology & Science, Alexandra Cook
5. Plants & Medicine, Clare Griffin
6. Plants in Culture, Stephen Bending
7. Plants as Natural Ornament, Mark Laird
8. The Representation of Plants, Ekaterina Heath and Jennifer Milam
Notes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
The Cultural Histories are multi-volume sets that survey the social and cultural construction of specific subjects across six historical periods, broadly:
- Antiquity
- The Medieval Age
- The Early Modern Age
- The Age of Enlightenment
- The Age of Empire
- The Modern Age
The subjects covered range from Animals to Dress and Fashion, from Sport to Furniture, from Money to Fairy Tales. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters so that readers may gain an understanding of a period by reading an entire volume, or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Each six-volume set is illustrated.
Titles are available as printed sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
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